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Monthly Weather Review (Mo. Weather Rev., 32 (1904), Nos. 7, pp. 303-352, 

 figs. 3, charts 10: 8, pp. 353-400, figs. 7, charts 13; 9, pp. 401-444, pis. 2, fig. 1, charts 

 10; 10, pp. 445-496, figs. 13, charts 11; 11, pp. 497-546, figs. 7, charts 11).— In addition 

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

 logical tables and charts for the months of July, August, September, October, and 

 November, 1904, recent papers bearing on meteorology, etc., these numbers contain 

 the following articles and notes: 



No. 7. — Special contributions on The Movements of the High Clouds in the West 

 Indies, by J. T. Quinn; The Dissemination of Daily Forecasts by Telephone, by 

 W. G. Burns; Attempts at Methodical Forecasting of the Weather, by L. Besson; 

 Air Radiation (illus. ), by C. C. Hutchins and J. C. Pearson; and notes on observa- 

 tions at Tasiusak; climatology of Baltimore, Md. ; meteorology at Montpellier, 

 France; tornado in Mobile County, Ala. ; hailstorm at Pueblo, Colo. ; early American 

 weather records; weather and crops in Arizona; the weather of Iceland and Europe; 

 a home-made globe; does the aurora ever envelop the whole earth? fake forecasts; 

 lightning strokes in the open field; the climate of Manila; an Italian hailstorm in 

 1545; secular changes in climate; a tertiary rainbow; meteorology in Chile; earth- 

 quakes in California; the duration and rate of rainfall; the capacity of the air for 

 aqueous vapor; ocean meteorology; temperature of the upper atmosphere; precipi- 

 tation in Wisconsin; cannonading against hail; and passage of sound through the 

 atmosphere. 



No. 8. — Special contributions on Local Storm at St. Louis, Mo., August 19, 1904, by 

 L. H. Daingerfield ; Cloudburst near Citrus, Cal., by W. E. Bonnett; The Annual and 

 Geographical Distribution of Cyclones of High Velocity (Over 500 Miles in Twelve 

 Hours) in the United States, 1893-1902 (illus.), by S. Hanzlik; The Unusual Rain- 

 fall of February at Honolulu (illus.), by R. C. Lydecker; Dust in the Atmosphere 

 during 1902-3, by A. Noble; Storm of August 20, 1904, in Minnesota, by T. S. Out- 

 ram; The Origin of the Cuba Cyclones of June 13-14, 1904 (illus.), by M. Hall; 

 Recent Contributions to Climatology, by C. F. Tahnan; Earthquake of August 27, 

 1904 (illus.), by C. F. Marvin; and notes on Dr. George W. Hay; the primary and 

 secondary rainbows (illus.); formation and movement of hurricanes; a legal deci- 

 sion as to damage by lightning and wind; Weather Bureau men as instructors; the 

 Helwan and Abbassia observatories; the heuristic method; the Galveston hurricane 

 and ocean wave; are the movements of thunderstorms deflected by the tide? and the 

 diurnal variation of the barometer at Milwaukee. 



No. 9. — Special contributions on A New Theory of Fog Formation, trans, by F. W. 

 Proctor; Three Notable Meteorological Exhibits at the World's Fair (illus. ), by J. II. 

 Spencer; The Dignity of the Service, by J. H. Scarr; Vortex Rings as Revolving 

 Solids, by F. J. B. Cordeiro; and notes on meteorology in Roumania; the bulletins 

 of the Japanese service; Weather Bureau men as instructors; rainfall in Fiji; Pro- 

 fessor Ward on the climate of the United States; the third convention of Weather 

 Bureau officials; observations for twelve months in Lassa; observations at the 

 Franco-Scandinavian station for aerial soundings; wind velocity and ocean waves; 

 record of droughts at Raleigh, N. C. ; and a pack trail on Mount Whitney (illus.). 



No. 10. — Special contributions on Studies of Raindrops and Raindrop Phenomena 

 (illus.), by W. A. Bentley; The Advancement of Meteorology, by T. H. Davis; 

 Thunderstorms at Tampa, Fla. (illus.), by J. Bily, jr.; An Index of Meteorological 

 Items in the Jesuit Relations, by F. L. Odenbach; Mount Tsukuba Meteorological 

 Observatory— What Does Meteorology Need for Its Future Advancement? by S. T. 

 Tamura; and September Floods in the Southwest, by F. H. Brandenburg, W. H. 

 Alexander, and J. B. Sloan; and notes on Royal Meteorological Society, Journal of 

 the Meteorological Society of Japan, Weather Bureau men as instructors, award of 



