METEOROLOGY. 117 



On the oxydase in kaki fruit, K. Aso {Hol. Miuj. [VoAv/o], /.; (IDOO), ,V«. /^v; 

 p]i. ..'S.-,-jS9 1 . 



A physiolog-ical function of oxydase in kaki fruit, K. Aso [llnl. Maq. [2w/;*/o], 



14 (HKJO), A'-/. P!'!, i>i>. /;.'', ISO). 



METEOROLOGY. 



Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, 1898-99, \V. r>. Mookk ( F. 6'. 

 />'///. A<ji\, Widflicr Biimta Rpt. 18!iS-'J9, I, pp. ^47). — The tiryt part of this report 

 contains an account of the operations of the Weather Bureau durinjj the year endetl 

 June ;W, lSi»9 ( Iv S. R., 11, p. 621); i)art 2, a Ust of observing stations and clianj.'es 

 therein during 1898, and hourly averages of atmospheric pressure, tiMuperatiire, and 

 wind at 28 stations; part 3, monthly and annual meteorological summaries for 159 

 stations; part 4, monthly and annual means and extremes of temperature and dates 

 of tirst and last killing frosts; and part 5, monthly and annual precipitation. 



Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, 1899-1900, W. L. Moore ( f ^. ,S'. 

 Di'jit. A(/r., ]Vct(ther Bureau Rpt. 1899-1900, pp. 436). — This includes an administra- 

 tive report giving a general account of the operations of the Bureau during the year,' 

 and reports containing a list of observing staticsns and changes therein during 1899 

 and hourly averages of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and winds from the 

 records of automatic instruments at 28 stations; monthly and annual meteorological 

 sunnnaries for 170 Weather Bureau stations; monthly and annual means and extremes 

 of temi)erature and dates of tirst and last killing frost, 1899; monthly and annual 

 l)reci])itation; miscellaneous meteorological tables and reports, including data relating 

 to sunshine and excessive precipitation in 1898 and 1899, and pressure, temperature, 

 etc., for the West India stations; and meteorological observations of the second 

 \\'('lliiian expedition. 



Monthly Weather Review {U. S. Depl. Aijr., Weafhei- Bureau, Monthly Weather 

 Renew, 29 {1901), Nos. 1, pp. 1~4S, ph. 2, figs. S, charts 10; 2, pp. 49-98, pis. 5, figs. 

 10, charts 8; 3, pp. 99-144, pl- 1, charts 9). — In addition to the usual reports on fore- 

 casts, wai-nings, weather and crop conditions, meteorological tal)les and charts for 

 the months of January, February, and March, 1901, recent papers bearing on mete- 

 orology, etc., these numbers contain the f(jllowing articles and notes: 



No. 1, special contributions on The relation of rainfall to mountains, by W. II. 

 Alexander; Climate and corn, by H. B. Wren; Methods employed in the distribu- 

 tion of weather forecasts, by J. Berry; Long range seasonal forecasts for the Pacific 

 Coast .States, by A. McC. Ashley; Some features of the climate of Idaho (illus. ), by 

 S. M. Blandford; Studies on the atmosphere at Trappes, France, by L. Teisserenc de 

 Bort; Relation of the water level of (ireat Salt Lake to the precipitiition (illus.), by 

 L. H. Murdoch; The water level of Great Salt Lake, by G. K. (Jilbert; and Fog 

 studies on Mount Tamalpais: Number 3 — photographs of fog billows, (illus. ), by A. Cf. 

 Mc.Vdie; and notes by the editor on the Milwaukee convention of Weather liureau 

 otticials, station libraries, lectures and instruction by Weather Bureau men, and 

 cunuilus clouds above columns of smoke. 



No. 2, Special contributions on Ice caves at Flagstaff, Ariz., by Mrs. E. Renoe; 

 Relative length of warm and cold seasons, by II. Penny witt; The rainfall of the Lee- 

 ward and Windward islands, by M. S. W. Jefferson; The relation between the level 

 of (ireat Salt Lake and the rainfall (illus.), by S. F. Mackie; Fog studies on Mount 

 Tamal})ais: Nundx-r 5— wreck of the Pacilic Mail steamship Rio de Janeiro (illus.), 

 by A. (i. McAdie; l.,ake I^adoga from a thernuc point of view (illus.), by J. de 

 Schokalsky; and Frost fighting, by A. G. McAdie; and notes by the editor on Mr. 



' Publislied also as Weather liun-au i>oc. 231, and in Report of the Sccn-tary of 

 Agriculture, 1900. 



