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climatological tables and charts. There are also special papers on Average 

 Stream Flow of the Cape Fear, Tar, and Roanoke Rivers of Eastern North 

 Carolina; Stream Flow of the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers in Mississippi 

 (illus.), by F. Montgomery; Heavy Rainfall and Flood at Lincoln, Nebr., by 

 C. C. Garrett ; The Work of the Weather Bureau for the Benefit of Horticul- 

 ture, by M. W. Hayes; Conservation of Water in the Luwer Trinity River 

 (illus.), by H. P. Porter; Relation of the Weather Bureau to the Conservation 

 of Our Natural Resources, by W. Spry; What is a Desert? by J. C. Alter; 

 Mountain Sites for Observatories on the Pacific Slope (illus.), by A. G. Mc- 

 Adie ; Dry Season in Idaho, by C. A. Donnel ; and Review of the Spokane River 

 Hydroelectric Power Plants (illus.), by J. C. Ralston. 



Meteorological observations at the Massachuetts Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, J. E, Osteander and C. M. Damon (JUassachiisctts Sta. Met. BuJs. 261, 

 262, pp. If each). — Summaries of observations at Amherst, Mass., on pressure, 

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

 phenomena during September and October, 1910. The data are briefly discussed 

 in general notes on the weather of each mouth. 



Meteorology and climate {Off. Yearhook N. S. Wales, 1908-09, pp. 7-1^),— 

 The meteorological and climatological conditions of New South Wales are 

 described, and tables showing temperature and precipitation at different places 

 in the State are given. 



British rainfall, 1908, 1909, H. R. Mill (London, 1909, pp. 100+30^, pis. 9, 

 figs. U; 1910, pp. 120+308, pis. 11, figs. 39; rev. in Nature [Lotidoni, 84 (1910), 

 No. 2139, ju). 523, 524; Gard. Citron., 3. ser., J,8 (1910), No. 12U, pp. 311, 312). ~ 

 These reports deal with the rainfall of the British Isles during the years named 

 as recorded by over 4,500 voluntary observers. 



The report for 190S contains special articles on New Recording Rain Gages, 

 by H. R. Mill; Ratio of Monthly Rainfall between Denton House. Brampton, 

 and Seathwaite, by T. G. Charlton ; Rainfall Observations in Snowdonia, by 

 A. Lockwood; and Twenty Years' Rainfall at Carrablagh, County Donegal. 



The report for 1909 contains special articles on The British Rainfall Organiza- 

 tion after Fifty Years, by H. R. Mill ; and The Spot in England and Wales 

 where Snow Lies Latest, with Observations of Snowfall on the Snowdonian 

 Range, by J. R. G. Jones. It also records the fact that the British Rainfall 

 Organization had been placed on a permanent footing with a nucleus of an 

 endowment in charge of trustees. The development of the organization is 

 described and the details of the new constitution are given. 



In addition to the usual data the reports discuss heavy rains in short periods 

 and rainfall days. For the British Isles as a whole the rainfall for 1909 

 (38.56 in.) was exactly the average, but during the last 21 years dry years 

 have been twice as frequent as wet years. 



Decline in rainfall, G. Guilbert (Assoc. PranQ. Avanc. Set., Compt. Rend., 

 37 (1908), pp. J,12-418) .—Dai?i are presented to show that there has been a 

 general diminution of rainfall in France and that this decline bears a well 

 defined relation to the decrease in the forested area. 



On the quantity of ammonia and nitric acid in the rain water collected 

 at Plahult in Sweden, H. von Feilitzen and I. Lugner (Jour. Agr. Sci., 3 

 (1910), No. 3, pp. 311-313).— The data here reported have been noted from 

 another source (E. S. R.. 23, p. 220). 



The effect of cannonading on hailstorms, C. AndrI: (Compt. Rend. Acad. 

 Sci. [Parish, 150 (1910). No. 17, pp. 1023, 1024; a^s. in Rev. Sci. [Paris], 48 

 (1910), I, No. 19, p. 604).— The author has compared the hailstorms observed 

 at 32 stations in the Rhone Valley during two periods, 1881 to 1900 and 1900 

 to 1908, cannonading against hail having been brought into use during the 



