476 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Montana, by A. B. Coe ; and sunshine at the Southern California agri- 

 cultural experiment farm, near Pomona, California, and a note by the 

 editor on the St. Louis tornado. 



Report of the meteorologist, W. H. Bishop {Delatcare Sta. Ept. 

 1895j 2)p. J?Os-Z-JS). — ]\Ionthly summaries of observ^ations at 6 stations 

 in the State on temi^erature, pressure, and rainfall are given. A sum- 

 mary of temperature and rainfall observations for the year 1894 is given 

 in the following table: 



Annual summary of meteorological ohservations in Delaware. 



Temperature (°F.) : 



Higliest 



Lowest 



Mean 



EainfaU (inches) total 



Number of days on wliicli 0.01 iucb or 

 more of raiu" fell 



Mills- 

 boro. 



97.50 



9.00 



55.50 



46.00 



120 



Meteorological summary {Mississippi Sta. Bpt. 1895, jyp. 106, 107). — 

 Tabulated monthly summaries are given of observations on rainfall for 

 7 years (1889-1895) and wind movement for G years (1890-1895), and 

 on temperature, rainfall, wind movement, and cloudiness for 1895. 



The more important data in these summaries are as follows: Temperature (degrees 

 F.), maximum, 97, June 2 ; minimum, 2, February 8 ; range, 95 (1895), 85.2 (for 6 years). 

 rrecipitation (inches), total, 47.49 (1895), 50.19 (for 7 years); number of clear days, 

 132; partly cloudy, 186; cloudy, 47; rainy, 91. Wind (prevailing direction), SE. ; 

 total movement, 61,846 miles (1893), 68,201 (lor 6 years). Sunshine, number of hours 

 recorded, 2,515A. 



The use of kites for meteorological observations in the upper air, H. H. 

 Claytox {Nature, 53 (1896), Xo. 141G, p. 150). — A brief account is given of observa- 

 tions with a meteorograph (which records temperature, pressure, and humidity) 

 carried by a kite to a height of a mile. 



Meteorological records, E. A. Beals {Minnesota Sta. Bpt. 1895, pp. 390-392). — 

 Reprinted from Bulletin 46 of the station (E. S. R., 8, p. 207). 



Meteorological observations at MUnster, 1884-1895, J. KcixiG {Landw. Vers. 

 Stat. MUnster, Fine Denlsclirift, ISOG, pp. 257-201). — ^lonthly summaries of observa- 

 tions on temperature, barometic pressiue, and precipitation. 



The Congress of Clermont-Ferrand (1896). Section of climatology {Jour. 

 Byg., 21 {1896), No. 1051, pp. 549-551). 



WATER— SOILS. 



The texture of the soil, L. H. Bailey {Neic York Cornell Sta. Bui. 

 119, pp. 407-412, Jigs. 3). — It is stated that this bulletin and others of 

 the same series "are written for the purpose of giving their readers a 

 few simple and primary lessons in some of the most fuudamental sub- 

 jects connected with the cropping of the land. ... It is their sole 

 ambition to teach, not to discover or to record." The series is pub- 

 lished under recent State legislation (chapter 437, laws of 1896), which 



