828 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



No. 11, special contributions on The westward movement of the daily barometric 

 wave (illus.), by O. L. Fassig; The reduction of records of rain gages, by M. S. W. 

 Jefferson and A. J. Henry; The temperature of the soil and the surface of the 

 ground, by D. A. Seeley (see p. 833); and The sun-spot period and the temperature 

 and rainfall of Jamaica (illus.), by M. Hall; and notes by the editor on relative fre- 

 quency of sun spots, hailstorms on the St. Lawrence, earthquake-proof buildings, 

 signs and weather, the equinoctial storm, the November meteors, ice caves and 

 freezing wells, the temperature of water in wells, periodicity in climate, auroral light, 

 establishment of the Martinique weather service, and second Mexican meteorolog- 

 ical congress. 



No. 12, special contributions on Evaporation underground, by E. S. Balch; Facili- 

 ties for systematic study of corresponding weather types (illus.), by F. fl. Branden- 

 burg; A proposed classification and index of weather maps as an aid in weather fore- 

 casting (illus.), by W. V. Brown; Classitied weather types, l)y E. B. Garriott; An 

 auroral-lunar halo display, by H. H. Ten Broeck; and The physical basis of long- 

 range weather forecasts, by C. Abbe; and notes by the editor on classified weather 

 types, the influence of small lakes on local climate, meteorological observations with 

 kites at sea, climate and crops, the Meteorological Society of Mauritius, early 

 meteorological records, lunar halo and lunar corona, and halo of Hevelius (illus.). 



Meteorolog'ical chart of the Great Lakes, A. J. Henry and N. B. Conger 

 ( U. S. Dept. Ayr., Weather Bureau, Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes, 1901, No. 2, 

 pp. 32, charts 13). — This is the usual summary of observations for the season of 

 1901 on storms, atmospheric precipitation and lake levels, opening and closing of 

 navigation, wrecks and casualties, fog, etc., with a paper on the use of barographs on 

 the Great Lakes. 



Meteorological observations at the Michigan Agricultural College for 

 1900 {Michigan Sta. Bpt. 1901, pp. if/-/^) .— TaV)ulated daily and monthly sum- 

 maries of observations during 1900 on temperature, i)ressure, precipitation, humidity, 

 cloudiness, wind movement, etc. The summary for the year is as follows: INlean 

 temperature, 48.08° F. ; humidity, 91 per cent; atmospheric pressure (reduced to 

 32° F. ), 29.099; cloudiness, 46.1 per cent; amount of rain or melteil snow, 31.02 in.; 

 snowfall, 47.10 in.; nund>er of thunderstorms, 38. 



Meteorology in Prussia {Her. Sci. {Paris~\, 4. .sr/\, 17 {190?), No. l,p. 26). — A 

 note on the report for 1900 pul)lished by the National Institute of Prussia, giving 

 summaries of observations at 200 meteorological stations, 2,200 rainfall stations, and 

 1,400 stf)rm-warning stations. 



Results of meteorological observations in German Southwest Africa 

 {Dankelmami's Mitt. Duet. Scliittzgebieten, rejl. 14; abs. in Meteor. ZtscJir. [Vienna], 19 

 (190.7), No. 1, pp. 41-4-'^). 



Report of the Meteorological Council (Ej>t. Meteor. Council [Great Britain], 

 1901, pp. 16,2, charts 4)- — An account of the work of the council during the year 

 ended March 31, 1901, in the following lines, ocean meteorology, weather telegraphy 

 and forecasts, climatology, and miscellaneous investigations, is given with statements 

 regarding puV)lications of the council and its lil)rary and finances. 



Climate of the British Empire, 1900, A. Bichan {Symons' Mo. Meteor. Mag., 

 36 {1901), pp. 167, 168). 



Climate and mineral waters of Spain, A. Lab.vt {Cinual ct caux minerales 

 d'E.'<pagnc. Pari.^: ./. B. Bailliere ct Son, 1901, pp. 78). 



The daily barometric wave, H. H. Clayton {Science, n. ser., 15 {1902), No. 371, 

 p. 232).— A brief discussion of a recent papei by O. L. Fassig on the westward move- 

 ment of the daily barometric wave. 



The story of the snow crystals, W. A. Bentley {Harper's Mo. Mag., 104 {1901), 

 No. 619, pp. 111-114; noted in Science, n. ser., 15 {1902), No. 368, p. ///).— Essen- 

 tially the same as the article contributed by the author to the Monttdy Weather 



