1917] EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 807 



METEOROLOGY. 



Monthly Weather Review (U. S. Mo. Weather Rev., 45 (1911), Nos. 5, pp. 

 203-266, pis. 12, figs. 14; 6, pp. 267-333, pis. 20, figs. 34).— In addition to weather 

 forecasts, river and flood observations, and sei^mological reports for May and 

 June, 1917; lists of additions to the Weather Bureau Library and of recent 

 papers on meteorology and seismology ; notes on the weather of the months ; 

 solar and sky radiation measurements at Washington, D. C, during May and 

 June, 1917 ; condensed climatological summaries ; and the usual climatological 

 tables and charts, these numbers contain the following articles: 



No. 5. — City Smoke and Daylight Illumination Intensities (illus.), by H. H 

 Kimball and A. H. Thiessen ; On Horizontal Halos (illus.), by Y. Tsuiji (re 

 printed) ; Solar Halo at Vicksburg, Mi.ss., April 24, 1917, by W. E. Barron 

 Halo Phenomena April 8, 1917, at York, N. Y., by M. N. Stewart; Summer 

 Types of Rainfall in Upper Pecos Valley (illus.), by C. Hallenbeck (see p. 808) 

 Showers of Organic Matter, by W. L. McAtee (see p. 808) ; Records at the 

 Abbe Meteorological Observatory Compared with Those at the Government 

 Building, Cincinnati (illus.), by W. C. Devereaux ; Winter Indoor Aridity in 

 Topeka, Kans., by S. D. Flora ; The Preparation of Precipitation Charts, by 

 W. G. Reed and J. B. Kincer ; Some New Instruments for Oceanographical Re- 

 search.— Supplemental Note (illus.) ; Hail Squall of May 1, 1917, and Accom- 

 'panying Weather, Baltimore, Md., by L. K. Hirshberg; Photographs of the 

 Antler, N. Dak., Tornado of August 20, 1911 (illus.), by H. E. Simpson; and 

 Some Researches in the Far Eastern Seasonal Correlations. — Second Note 

 (illus.), by T. Okada (reprinted). 



No. 6. — Peculiar Streak in Line with Kite Wire, by B. J. Sherry ; The W^orld's 

 Air Routes and Their Regulation, by Lord Montagu, of Beaulieu (reprinted 

 abs.) ; New England Snowfall (illus.), by C. F. Brooks (see p. 807) ; The Cold 

 Spring of 1917 (illus.), by P. C. Day (see p. SOS) ; Some Aspects of the Cold 

 Period, December, 1916, to April, 1917, by R. C. Mossman (reprinted abs.) ; 

 Accidental Pressure Variations in the United States, by A. J. Henry ; The Tor- 

 nadoes and Windstorms of May 25-June 6, 1917 (illus.), by H. C. Franken- 

 field; Meteorological Courses for Aeronautical Engineers. — [Syllabus of 10 

 Lectures by R. DeC. Ward] ; Some Researches in The Far Eastern Sea.sonal 

 Correlations.— Third Note, by T. Okada (abs.) ; Kristian Birkeland, 1S67-1917, 

 by C. Chree (reprinted) ; Use of the Divining Rod in the Search for Hidden 

 Things, by O. E. Meinzer (reprinted) ; Desiccation of Africa, by R. L. Harger 

 (reprinted abs.) ; and Effect of Ilumidification of a School Room on Intel- 

 lectual Progress of the Pupils, K. L. Thorndike and P. J. Kruse (abs.). 



Free-air data at Drexel Aerological Station. — April, May, and June, 1916, 

 W. R. Blair et al. (U. S. 21o. Weather Rev. Sup. 7 (1917), pp. 51, pis. 3).— 

 Detailed tabulated data are given on temperature, pressure, humidity, wind, 

 and potential obtained in 140 free-air observations during a period of 91 days 

 in which the mean altitude attained was 2,339 meters (7,672 ft.) above sea 

 level. 



Meteorological observations at the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, J. E. Ostrander et al. {ilassachusetts Sta. Met. Buls. 343-344 (1917), 

 pp. 4 each). — Summaries of observations at Amherst, Mass., on pressure, tem- 

 perature, humidity, precipitation, wind, sunshine, cloudiness, and casual 

 phenomena during July and August, 1917, are presented. The data are briefly 

 discussed in general notes on the weather of each month. 



New England snowfall, C. F. Brooks (U. S. Ho. Weather Rev., 45 (1917), 

 No. 6, pp. 271-285, pi. 1, figs. 29).— This is an amplification of an article which 

 has already been noted from another source (B. S. R., 87, p. 16). 



