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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Meteorological observations, W. T. Ellis, R. Robertson, S. A. Bedford, A. 

 Mackay, and T. A. Sharpe ( Carmda Expt. Farms Epts. 1900, pp. 43, 44, '280, 281, 389, 

 434,475).— Thin includes monthly summaries of observations during 1900 on tem- 

 perature and precipitation, total snowfall and rainfall during 11 years, 1890-1900, and 

 a monthly record of sunshine during 1898, 1899, and 1900, at the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm at Ottawa; notes on the weather and a monthly summary of maximum 

 and minimum temperatures during the year ended November 30, 1900, at Nappan, 

 Nova Scotia; a monthly record of maximum and minimum temperatur'^'S, rainfall, 

 snowfall, and sunshine during the year ended November 30, 1900, at Brand™, Man- 

 itoba; similar observations for the same period at experimental farm, Indian Head, 

 Northwest Territories; and a record of highest and lowest temperatures, rainfall, 

 snowfall, and sunshine during the year ended November 30, 1900, and during 4 pre- 

 ceding years, 1896-1899, at Agassiz, British Columbia. 



Report of the meteorologist, W. H. Bishop {Delaware Sia. Bpt. 1900, pp. 239- 

 249). — Monthly summaries of observations at 6 different places in Delaware on tem- 

 perature, pressure, precipitation, relative humidity, and prevailing winds during the 

 year ended June 30, 1900, and a summary of observations on temperature and 

 precipitation during the calendar year 1899 are given. 



The summary for 1899 is as follows: 



Annual summary of meteorological observations in Delatvare, 1899. 



Locality. 



Newark 



Middletown 



Dover 



Milford 



Seaford 



Millsboro . . . 



Temperature. 



Highest. 



Deg. F. 

 95 (.June and 



July) 

 99 (June) 

 95 (June) 

 97 (June) 

 99 (June) 

 100 (June) 



Deg. F. 

 -11.5 (Feb.) 



-11 

 -14 

 -12 

 -11 

 -10 



(Feb.) 

 (Feb.) 

 (Feb.) 

 (Feb.) 

 (Feb.) 



Mean. 



Deg. F. 

 51.1 



52.7 

 53.3 

 55.7 

 54.5 

 54 



Total 

 rainfall. 



Inches. 

 38.33 



40.15 

 40.80 

 34.62 

 43.77 

 43. 8G 



Number of 



dav.s on 

 which 0.01 

 in. or more 

 of rain fell. 



Meteorological observations {Maine Sta. Bui. 69, ]>p. 196, 197). — This is a 

 monthly summary of observations at Orono during 1900 on atmospheric pressure, tem- 

 perature, precipitation, cloudiness, and wind movement. The mean temperature 

 for the year was 43.46° F. (mean for 32 years 42.54°), mean pressure 29.79 in., pre- 

 cipitation 53.80 in. (mean for 32 years 45.33), and iumi1)er of cloudy days 153. 



Annual report of the central station for meteorology and terrestrial mag- 

 netism, Vienna {.Tahrh. K. K. Central- Anst. Met. u. Erdmagnet., Vienna, 1900, pp. 

 192). — This is mainly a collection of tables giving (1) daily observations on atmos- 

 pheric pressure, temperature, moisture, direction, and force of the wind, and i^recipita- 

 tion at 20 stations in Austria during 1899; (2) hourly and daily observations on 

 pressure, temperature, wind, rain, sunshine, and soil temperatures at Vienna and at 

 a few of the other stations of the first class during 1899; and (3) observations on 

 temperature fluctuations in Lower Austria in the winter of 1898-99. 



Agricultural meteorology {Meteorologie agricole. Paris: Paul Dujjonl, 1900, j)p. 

 51, Jigs. 4)- — This pamphlet, prepared for u.se at the Exposition at Paris in 1900, 

 gives a brief history of the Russian weather service and an account of the organiza- 

 tion of special service for agricultural meteorology in 1897; and a descriptive list of 

 the apparatus, reports, charts, etc., illustrating methods and results, exhibited at 

 the exposition. There is also included ari account of work on forest meteorology, 

 and of the charts exhibited at the exposition showing results of such observations. 



Meteorological observations in 1899, R. Guerin {Observaciones meteor ologicas 

 correspondientes alano de 1899; observaciones meteorologicas practicadas en varios lugares 

 de la Republica. Guatemala: Tipografia Xacional, 1900, pp. 57). — Daily and monthly 

 summaries are given of observations on temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall, etc., 



