418 EXPEEIMENT STATION EECORD. 



This would indicate that there is no effect of the sea by way of changing the 

 climate of the country about its neighborhood." 



In cooperation with the Reclamation Service the observations oh evaporation 

 were extended to about 25 stations in the United States. 



Monthly Weather Review (i/o. Weather Rev., 3'J {1911), Nos. 1, pp. 1-156, 

 figs. 3, clnirffi JO; 2, pp. 157-310, figs. 10, charts 10; 3, pp. 317-Jj80, figs. 8, charts 

 10). — In addition to the usual climatological summaries, weather forecast^; 

 and warnings for January, February, and March, 1911, river and flood obsei-- 

 vations, lists of additions to the Weather Bureau library and of recent papers 

 on meteorology and seismology, a condensed climatological summary, and cli- 

 matological tables and charts, these numbers contain the following special 

 papers : 



No. 1. — The Pelahatchie Meteor, Which Passed Over Central Jlississippi in 

 the Forenoon of October 17, 1910 (illus.), by F. Montgomery; Orchard Heating 

 in Indiana, by W. M. Walton, jr. (see p. 446) ; Deforestation and Rainfall, by 

 G. V. Sager; The Cold Wave and the Citrus Industry, by B. Bunnemeyer; 

 Colorado River Siphon Tunnel, and Completion of the Roosevelt Dam, Salt 

 River Valley, Ariz., by L. N. Jesunofsky ; The Minidoka Irrigation Project, 

 by F. S. Weymouth; and The Drought of 1910 in the Principal Spring-wheat 

 Growing States (illus.), by P. C. Day (see p. 420). 



No. 2.— Correction of paper on Are the Springs Colder Now? by G. Reeder, in 

 December, 1910, issue (illus.) ; Brazos River Overflows and Levee Protection, 

 by W. W. Dibrell ; Break in the Lower Colorado, by L. N. Jesunofsky ; Notes 

 on the Rivers of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Watersheds during February, 

 1911, by N. R. Taylor; Note upon the Weather at Redlands, Cal., by W. S. 

 Devol ; Work of the Weather Bureau in Protecting Fruit, Especially Frost 

 Protection, by A. G. McAdie; Straw as Protection Against Frost (illus.), by 

 A. G. McAdie (see p. 420) ; Irrigation in Idaho, by S. H. Hays; and The Normal 

 Temperature of Porto Rico, West Indies (illus.), by O. L. Fassig (see p. 419). 



No. 3. — The Average Stream Flow of the Savannah River, by E. D. Emigh ; 

 A Pall of Darkness, at Louisville, Ky., and Surrounding Districts (illus.), by 

 F. J. Walz; [Change of Climate in Michigan and Kansas], by J. W. Smith; 

 Investigation of the Water Resources of Minnesota, by R. Follansbee; Origin 

 and Progress of Land Drainage in Bolivar County, Miss., by W. W. Boone; 

 The Roosevelt Dam and the Salt River Project, in Arizona (illus.), by L. N. 

 Jesunofsky; Notes on the Rivers of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Water- 

 sheds during March, 1911, by N. R. Taylor; Forecasting the Supply of Water 

 for the Summer from the Depth of Snow (illus.), by A. G. McAdie (see p. 421) ; 

 Indian Summer, by J. Morrow ; and The Lowest Barometric Minima at Sea 

 Level, by W. Krebs, trans, by C. Abbe, jr. 



Meteorological observations {Maine Sta. Bui. 186, pp. 393-395). — Observa- 

 tions at Orono, Me., on temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, and wind during 

 1910 are compai-ed with the means of similar observations for 42 years. The 

 mean temperature for 1910 was 44.62° F., the mean for 42 years 42.37° ; the 

 precipitation for 1910, 31.6S in., for 42 years 43.41 in. ; the snowfall for 1910, 

 52.25 in., for 42 years 90.8 in. ; the number of rainy days in 1910 was 124, 

 cloudy days 163; total movement of wind in miles, 59,812. A table is also 

 given which shows the monthly and annual precipitation during 1910 at 18 

 different places in Maine. 



Weather observations, M. A. Blake and A. J. Fabley {New Jersey Stas. 

 Rpt. 1909, pp. 99-112). — This is a record of observations on evaporation, rain- 

 fall, and temperature of the air and soil at the college farm at New Brunswick 

 during 1909. 



