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condensed climatological summaiy, and cliraatological tables and charts, these 

 numbers contain the following special papers: 



No. 10. — Severe Windstorm Crosses the State of Indiana, by Y. H. Church ; 

 Wisconsin River Flood of October, 1911 (illus.), by J. H. Spencer; Flood 

 Report, by B. L. Waldron; The Flood in the Rio Grande, by F. H. Branden- 

 burg; Floods in Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico, by 

 F. H. Brandenburg; Notes on the Rivers of the Sacramento and San Joaquin 

 Valleys for October, 1911, by N. R. Taylor; The Cyclonic Distribution of Rain- 

 fall in the United States, etc. (illus.), by W. G. Reed; and A Noteworthy 

 Aurora, by D. Manning. 



No. 11. — Tornado at Owosso, Mich., by F. H. Coleman; Tornado near Daven- 

 port, Iowa, on November 11, 1911, by J. M. Sherier; Freezes of November 13 

 and 29-30. 1911, in the Sugar, Orange, and Trucking Region, by I. M. Cline; 

 Abnormalities of November Weather at Springfield, Mo., by J. S. Hazen ; and 

 Notes on the Rivers of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Watersheds during 

 November. 1911, by N. R. Taylor, 



Meteorological summaries {Kentucky 8ta. Rpt. 1910, pp. 330-333). — Tabular 

 summaries are given of observations during 1910 on atmospheric pressure, tem- 

 perature, precipitation, cloudiness, wind movement, and miscellaneous phe- 

 nomena at the State University at Lexington. 



Climate of Honolulu, J. Hann {Met. Ztschr., 29 (1912), No. 1, p. S//).— The 

 available records of observations on pressure, temperature, rainfall, and wind 

 movement are briefly summarized. 



California evaporation records, E. Dueyea, Jr. {Eriffin. Neics, 67 {1912), 

 No. 9, pp. 380-383). — The results of 2 series of observations on evaporation 

 from water surfaces, one on Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and the other in the Santa 

 Clara Valley, California, are reported and discussed. 



The greatest rainfall of the world {Rev. 8ci. [Paris], 50 {1912), I, No. 5, 

 p. lJf4).— It is stated that there was a fall of 2,238.7 mm. (88.08 in.) of water 

 in one continuous rain July 14 to 17, 1911, at Bagulo-Mirador, Philippine 

 Islands. This is second only to a fall of 2,898 mm. July 12 to 16, 1876, at 

 Cherra Punji, Assam. The maxima for a single day are Baguio, July 14, 1911, 

 880 mm.; Suva (Fiji), August 8, 1906, 1,041 mm.; Cherra Punji, July 14, 1876, 

 1,036 mm.; Tanabe, Japan, August 19 to 20, 1889, 902 mm.; Purniah, Bengal, 

 September 13, 1879, 889 mm. The maximum for Europe is Riposta, Sicily, 

 November 17, 1898, 465 mm. 



The amounts of nitrog'en as ammonia and nitric (and nitrous) acid in the 

 rain water collected at Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, J. Hudig {Jour. Agr. 

 Sci., 4 {1912), No. 3, pp. 260-269, figs. 3).— Determinations of nitrogen as 

 ammonia and as nitric acid in samples of rain water collected from July, 1908, 

 to December, 1910, are reported and discussed. 



Of the total nitrogen 75.3 per cent was nitrogen as ammonia and 24.7 per 

 cent nitric nitrogen, but the total amount and relative proportion of the differ- 

 ent forms of nitrogen were so variable that the author advises a systematic 

 study of the subject. On the basis of a mean rainfall for the Netherlands of 

 700 mm., containing 0.724 mg. of nitrogen as ammonia and 0.237 mg. of nitric 

 nitrogen per liter, or 0.961 mg. of total nitrogen, it is estimated that the annual 

 rainfall of that country carries down 5.99 lbs. of nitrogen per acre. 



Mineral waters, S. D. Averitt and O. M. Shedd {Kentucky Sta. Rpt. 1910, 

 pp. 323-329). — Partial mineral analyses of samples of water received from 

 different parts of the State are reported. 



The irrigation of soils with sewage and its effect on the composition of the 

 soil, H. Knopf {Die Bcrieselung des Bodens mit Spiiljauche, Hire Wirkung auf 

 die Zusammensetzung des Bodens mit besonderer Berucksichtigung des Kalkge- 



