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orologlcal Aspect of the Smoke Problem, by H. H. Kimball ; New Daily Weather 

 Map; The Weather Map on the Polar Projection; Winslow Upton, 1853-1914; 

 The Drift of a Train of a Bright Meteor (illus.) ; Ajinual Meeting Koyal Mete- 

 orological Society; Evolution of the Meterological Kite; Results of the Koch 

 Expedition Across Greenland, 1912-13; and Freshets in the Savannah River and 

 the Forecasting of High Water at Augusta, Ga. (illus.), by E. D. Emigh. 



Monthly Weather Review (Mo. Weather Rev., 42 (1914), No. 2, pp. 15-136, 

 pis. 8, flffs. 3'i). — In addition to notes on weather forecasts for February, 1914, 

 river and flood observations, lists of additions to the Weather Bureau library 

 and of recent papers on meteorology*, notes from the Weather Bureau library, 

 the weather of the month, a condensed climatological summary, and cliraa- 

 tological tables and charts, this number contains the following articles: 



Italian Twilights of 1913, by I. Galli ; Twilight Colors at Mount Weather, 

 Va., in 1913, by H. H. Kimball; Recent Balloon Experiments, by C. G. Abbott; 

 The Effect of Weather upon the Yield of Corn (illus.), by J. W. Smith (see 

 p. 229) ; Unpublished Contributions to the International Meteorological Congress 

 Held at Chicago, August. 1S93 ; On the Theoretical and Practical Importance of 

 a Series of Daily Weather Charts of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, 

 by H. Wild; A Classification of the Methods of Transition from Rain to Blue 

 Sky (illus.), by W. I. Milham ; Squalls and the Prediction of Tornadoes (illus.), 

 by E. Durand-Greville ; Evaporation from Snow and Errors of Rain Gage when 

 used to Catch Snowfall (illus.), by R. E. Horton ; Daily Synoptic Charts of the 

 Northern Hemisphere and Absolute Units, by W. N. Shaw ; The Japan Current 

 and the Climate of California, by W. G. Reed ; [Artificial Snowfall in a Train 

 Shed] ; [Mild Winter of 1913-14 in England] ; On the Amount of Evaporation, 

 by Y. Horiguti; Prevention of Fog; Do Clouds Yield Snow Easier than Rain? 

 by D. F. Manning; and The Value of Weather Forecasts in the Problem of 

 Protecting Forests from Fire (illus.), by E. A. Beals. 



Climatological data for the United States by sections {U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Weather Bur. Climat. Data, 1 {191.',), -Yos. 1, pp. 238, pl.t. 2, fig.s. -J; 2, pp. 248, 

 pis. 2, figs. 7). — In accordance with the new plan of publication of meteorological 

 and climatological data noted above these volumes contain brief summaries and 

 detailed tabular statements of climatological data for each State for January 

 and February, 1914. 



Meteorological observations at the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, J. E. Ostrander and E. K. Dexter {Massachusetts Sta. Met. 

 Buls. 303, 304 {1914), PP- 4 each). — Summaries of observations at Amherst, 

 Mass., on pressure, temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, sunshine, cloudi- 

 ness, and casual phenomena during March and April, 1914, are presented. The 

 data are briefly discussed in general notes on the weather of each month. 



Peculiarities of the California climate, G. F. McEwen {Mo. Weather Rev., 

 42 {1914), ^0. 1, pp. 14-23, figs. IS). — The peculiarities of the California climate 

 are discussed on the basis of general principles of atmospheric and oceanic 

 circulation. It is stated that " the climate of that part of California lying 

 between the coast and the mountains is largely controlled by the surface tem- 

 perature of the adjacent ocean, and consequently agrees at any place with the 

 normal marine climate of that latitude in winter. But in summer, when the 

 upwelling is so pronounced as to reduce the surface temperature of the inshore 

 water much below the normal, a coast climate, peculiar in many respects, is 

 produced, the remarkably low summer temperature being the most striking 

 peculiarity." 



A bibliography of references to literature relating to the subject is given. 



