124 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



subcutaneous tumcfarien*, Mycoderma cerevisice, and M. vini, describing their nuclei 

 and the changes which they undergo. 



Yeast and alcoholic fermentation, .1. R. C4reen (Nature, 57 (1898), No. 1486, pp. 

 591-594). — The author summarizes the present information relating to these subjects. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Monthly Weather Review (U. S. Dept. Ayr., Weather Bureau, 

 Moh thlil Weather Review, 26 (1898), Nos. 1, pp. 1-43, charts 13; 2, pp. 

 45-89, chart* 10; 3, pp. 91-137, charts 13).— Besides the usual sum- 

 maries No. 1 contains an article on The tornado of January 12 at Fort 

 Smith, Arkansas, by J. J. O'Donuell; and notes by the editor on moun- 

 tain storms, Dr. Waltemath's moon, thunderstorms in California, snow 

 rollers, and bright meteors. 



No. 2 contains a special article on The search light for weather sig- 

 nals, by E. B. Calvert; and notes by the editor on civil-service examina- 

 tions, promotion for merit, an American meteorological society, the 

 semaquir, peculiar mountain storms, lunar rainbow, waterspout, photo- 

 graphs of meteorological phenomena, Greenwich noon, and whirling 

 alto-cumulus clouds. 



No. 3 contains special articles on Cumulus clouds over a fire, by R. 

 DeC. Ward; Thunderstorms in New Brunswick, by S. W. Kain; Upper 

 clouds and weather changes, by G. W. Richards; Normal annual sun- 

 shine and snowfall, by A. J. Henry; and The moon and the aurora, by 

 H. A. llazen; and notes by the editor on chinooks vs. the Kuro Siro, 

 sulphur rains, moonshine and frost, and rain in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Arizona weather and climate, E. M. Boggs and N. H. Barnes (Arizona Sta. Bui. 

 27, pp. Hl-65).— This is a revised edition of Bulletin 20 of the station (E. S. R., 8, 

 p. 753). The additional data given in this bulletin relates principally to temperature. 



Meteorological observations at Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 1895, R. ('. Kedzie (Michigan Sta. Ilpt. 1S96, pp. 443-469).— Tabulated daily and 

 monthly summaries are given of observations during 1895 on hours of sunshiue, tem- 

 perature, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, humidity, wind movement, etc. 



The summary for the year is as follows: Maximum temperature, 100° F., July 6, 7; 

 minimum, — 24°, February 4, December 12 ; mean, 46.67°; humidity, 80.05 per cent; 

 atmospheric pressure (reduced to 32 3 P.), 29.077 in.; cloudiness, 51.04 per cent; 

 amount of rain or melted snow, 22.8 in.; snowfall, 49.14 in.; number of thunder- 

 storms, 13. 



The rainfall tables of the British Islands, 1866-1890 (Met. Council [Great Brit- 

 ain]. Offic. ]>t><\ 114. j>p. 288, maps .;. London : Eyre, $• Spottiswoode, 1897 '). — Tables give 

 summaries of observations during this period at 492 stations, distributed as follows: 

 287 in England and Wales, 151 in Scotland, and 54 in Ireland. The maps show the 

 main watersheds and catchment basins of the principal rivers. These tables include 

 data contained in similar tables published in 1883, which covered the period from 

 1866 to 1880, with the addition of the rainfall records from 1880 to 1890. 



Future rainfall, A. B. M. (Nature, 58 (1898), No. 1489, pp. 30, 31, chart 1).— By 

 charting the series obtained by "algebraic addition, step by step, of a series of 

 plus and minus values," it is shown that there is a regular recurrence in Great Brit- 

 ain at intervals of about thirty-five years of cold and wet periods. This bears out 

 the statement of Bruckner that such periodicity occurs in various parts of the 

 world. 



