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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Instructions to observers of the India Meteorological Department, J. Eliot 



{Calcvtia: ls9i, i^p. 103, pis. S). — This pamphlet of ''instructions'' is intended to 

 supersede tlie well-kuown and excellent "Indian Meteorologist's Vade Meciun" 

 published in 1877, but is much reduced in size and scope. It is confined to a descrip- 

 tion of the various instruments in use at the meteorological observatories in India, 

 as all reductions of observations are made at the Meteorological Office, Calcutta. — 



O. L. FASSIG. 



Meteorological observations in Italy, 1890 {Ann. JJff. Cent. Meteorol. Geod. Ital., 

 12 {1890), II. Roma: 1895, pp. 388). — Part II of the Annali contains the decade, 

 monthly, and annual means for all stations in Italy under the direction of the national 

 central oiSce. In addition to the ordinary observations the amounts of evaporation 

 are given for 63 stations for each decade. — o. l. fassig. 



Meteorological observations in Mexico, 1894 {Oba. Met. Magn6t. Central., 1894, 

 Dec. Mexico: pp. 9). — Summaries for December, with annual means. 



Russian Monthly "Weather Review, Jan.-Dec, 1894 {St. Petershurg : 1894). — 

 The reviews contain the ordinary meteorological observations for about 75 stations 

 in the Russian Empire. Each number comprises 10 large quarto pages of tabular 

 matter, and text (in the Russian language), together with a chart showing the mean 

 monthly pressure and temperature and total rainfall. — o. l. fassig. 



Meteorological observations in Sw^eden during 1890 {Acad. Roy. Sci. Sweden, 

 32 {1890). Stockholm: 1894, i^p. 155). — The volume is divided into 3 sections. The 

 first contains observations in extenao at 18 stations, the second the monthly and 

 annual means of all meteorological elements for 37 stations and of temperature for 

 93 stations, and the third pentad means for the 37 stations of part 2. — o. l« fassig. 



WATER— SOILS. 



Further investigations on the soils of Maryland, M. Whitney 



and S. Key {Maryland Sta. Bui. 29, pp. 153-174). — A brief discussion 

 of "some of the underlying principles of the relation of soils to crops" 

 more fully treated in the Annual Eeport of the station for 1891 (E. S. 

 E., 4, p. 17) and Bulletin 21 of the station (E. S. R., 5, p. 162), with a 

 report on physical examinations of typical truck and wheat soils of the 

 Eastern Shore of Maryland; limestone soils of the Cumberland and 

 Frederick Valleys; mountain peach soils (Cambrian sandstone); gneiss 

 soils (corn and wheat) from Bel Air, Darlington, Churchville, and 

 Glenville; and wheat and corn soils of southern Maryland. 



Soil temperature observations in Cordova, Argentine Republic 

 {An. Ojic. Meteorol. Argentina, vol. IX. Buenos Ayres: 18i)-i). — Observa- 

 tions of temperature in the soil at the surface and at depths of 0.1, 0.25, 

 0.5, 1,2, 2.7, and 3.75 meters are reported. A summary of results for 

 the year is given in the following table: 



Soil temperatures {degrees C). 



— O. li. FASSIG. 



