976 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



10 p. m., at which time the general atmospheric conditions are noted. 

 Automatic records by magnetographs, barograph, thermograph, pluvi- 

 ograph, and anemograph are made. 



The mean annual temperature for 1893 was 78.9° F.; greatest mean 

 daily temperature, 86° (April 16); least mean daily temperature, 68.1° 

 (February 8)-, maximum temperature, 92.1o (April); minimum temper- 

 ature, 59.8° (February). Total rainfall, 64.63 in.; number of cloudy 

 days, 118, and greatest daily fall of rain, 4.98 in. (June 20).— o. l,. 



FASSIG. 



Origin of cold waves, H. A. Hazen (Monthly Bevietv loiva Weather and Crop Serv- 

 ice, 6(1895), No. 3, pp. 4, 5). — Data in support of the theory that cold waves origi- 

 nate in the upper region of the air. 



On the first mercury thermometer, Maze (Compt. Rend., 120 (1895), No. IS, pp, 

 7S2, 733). — The invention of the mercury therniometeir is attributed not to Fahrenheit, 

 but to Bouilliau, who in the latter part of March, 1859, made comparative observa- 

 tions on an alcohol thermometer and on a mercury thermometer. 



On an old French series of thermometric and meteorological observations, 

 Maze (Compt. Bend., 120 (1895), No. 13, pp. 731, 732). 



Meteorological record for January and February, 1895 (Massachusetts State 

 Sta. Bui. 57, p. 1). — Notes on the weather and a brief summary of observations on 

 temperature, precipitation, and wind movement. 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Hatch Station, C. D. Warner 

 and F. L. Warren (Massachusetts Hatch Sta. Met. Buls. 73-75, pp. 4 each). — Daily and 

 monthly summaries of observations during. January, February, and March, 1895, with 

 general remarks on the weather of each month. 



Monthly "Weather Review of the Nebraska Weather Service, 1894 (Nebraska 

 Sta. Bui. 37, pp. 96, Jigs. 52). — Summaries for each mouth of 1894 of meteorological 

 observations by the State Weather Service cooperating with the Weather Bureau of 

 this Department, accompanied by outline maps of the State showing isotherms, 

 direction of the wind, and precipitation, and charts recording velocity of wind, 

 temperature, pressure, humidity, and precipitation, as shown by self-registering 

 instruments at the station. 



Meteorology for 1893, R. D. Newton (Neic York State Sta. Bpt. 1893, pp. 718- 

 733). — This includes tables showing precipitation by months since 1882; wind record 

 for 1893; sunshine records for 1893; a summary of sunshine records, May 1, 1885, to 

 January 1, 1894, and daily readings of maximum, minimum, and standard air ther- 

 mometers. 



North Carolina w^eather during January and February, 1895, H. B. Battle, 

 C. F. VON Herrmann, and R. Nunn (North Carolina Sta. Weather Service Bui. 64, pp. 

 1-16, maps 2} 65, pp. 19-32, maps 2). — The usual records of observations. 



WATER— SOILS. 



Contributions to the study of the reclaimed marshes of the 

 region of Medoc, France, F. Bbrthault and J. Crochetelle 

 {Ann. Agron., 21 (1895), No. 3, pp. 122-134). — This is an account of an 

 investigation, including observations on crops and system of culture 

 and pliysical and cliemical analyses of soils of the reclaimed lands along 

 the left bank of the Gironde estuary in the region of M^doc. These 

 lauds are protected on the west from the violent and salt sea winds 

 by sand dunes which have been covered by forest growth and other 

 vegetation, while the waters of the estuary are kept out by dikes and. 



