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Apparatus for use in determinations of the fat content in cream, butter, 

 margarin, etc.. Wendler (Milch Ztg., 36 (1907), Xo. 35. pp. '/W, 'ill, fi(/s.. 6). — 

 Tlie author describes a modiflcatiou of the test flasks used in the Gerber buty- 

 rometer, whereby " a quicker and more convenient, and, therefore, more exact 

 reading" of the proportion of fat in the sample is possible. 



METEOROLOGY— WATER. 



Monthly Weather Review (Mo. Weather Rev., 35 (1901), 'Nos. 7. /*/). 303- 

 33.',, figs. 5, charts 7; 8, pp. 3^5-388, figs. 2, charts 6).— In addition to the 

 usual reports on forecasts, warnings, weather and crop conditions, meteoro- 

 logical tables and charts for the months of July and August, 1907, recent 

 papers bearing on meteorology, recent additions to the Weather Bureau library, 

 etc., these numbers contain the following articles and notes: 



No. 7. — The Fundamental Interval in Meteorological and Climatological 

 Studies, especially in Charts of Isohyetal Lines; A Possible Case of Ball 

 Lightning (illus. ), by W. H. Alexander; Studies on the Phenomena of the 

 Evaporation of Water over Lakes and Reservoirs, by F. H. Bigelow ; Tornado 

 at Parlversburg, W. Va. ; Australian Climatology (illus.) ; Electric Spark Pro- 

 duced When Ice is Formed; The Jamaican Weather Service (illus.), by D. T. 

 Maring; and Interesting Lunar Corona, by C. M. Hammond. 



No. S. — Influence of Temperature and Moisture upon the Rate of Growth 

 of Tobacco (illus.), by G. N. Coffey; Studies of Frost and Ice Crystals, by W. 

 A. Bentley ; Cottier's Resistance of Elastic Fluids; A Summary of the History 

 of the Resistance of Elastic Fluids (illus.), by J. G. C. Cottier ; Local Forecasting 

 at Escanaba, by W. P. Stewart ; Lightning Phenomena, by I. Langmuir ; Salton 

 Sea and Local Climate ; Tornado at Maple Plain^ Minn. ; Hail Shooting in 

 Italy ; Influence of the Glass Cover on Actinometric Thermometers, by L. 

 Gorczynski, trans, by R. A. Edwards; Report on the Great Indian Earthquake 

 of 190.5, by C. F. Marvin; and The New Public Weather Service of Germany, 

 by P. Polis, trans, by G. E. Rausch. 



Meteorological observations, J. E. Ostkandek and T. A. Barr\' (Massa- 

 chusetts Sta. Met. Bills. 225, 226, pp. 4 each). — Summaries of observations at 

 Amherst, Mass., on pressure, temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, sun- 

 shine, cloudiness, and casual phenomena during September and October, 1907. 

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



The climate and soils of the Panhandle area [of West Virginia], G. P. 

 Grimsley, T. a. Caine, and G. W Tailey, Jr. ( \V. Va. Geol. Survey, County 

 Rpts. 1906, pp. 308-366, figs. 10, map 1). — The chapter on climate summarizes 

 the meteorological observations made at Wheeling since 1876, at Highland 

 Springs near Wellsburg since 1899, and at New Cumberland since 1901. 



The chapter on soils is a report of a survey made by tlie Bureau of Soils 

 of this Department and publisheil elsewhere in this issue (p. 417). 



Mt. Rose Weather Observatory, 1905-1907, J. E. Church, Jr. (Sierra 

 Club Bui., 6 (1907), No. 3, pp. 177-185, pis. //).— This is an illustrated account 

 of this observatory, which has already been referred to (E. S. R., 18, p. 529.) 



Annual report of the director of the [Philippine] Weather Bureau for 

 the year 1904, J. Aloue (Ann Rpt. Philippine Weather Bur., 190'/, pt. 3, pp. 

 562). — This third part of the annual report of the director of the Philip- 

 pine Weather Bureau gives detailed tal)ular summaries of meteorological 

 observations of the secondary stations in the l*hilip])ine Islands during 1904. 



Rainfall conditions of South America, E. L. Voss {Mitt. Justus Perthes' 

 Geogr. Anst., 1907, Enganzungsh. 157, pp. V-\-59, charts 19, dgm. Z)-— The 

 available data are summarized and charted with reference to amount and daily, 

 monthly, seasonal, yearly, and regional distribution. 



