312 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Temperature conditions of the earth, M. IIottinger ((IsikIIiIs. Jii(/rn., 31 

 {{DOS), Ao. .I'l. I)/). .n'j-.iH). jiij><. ,'/). — This nrtifle discusses the relation of alti- 

 tude, latilude, depth in tlie soil, and other couditions on temperature, i)articu- 

 larly in its hearing on habitahleness. 



Monthly Weather Review {Mo. Weather Rev., 36 (1908), ^os. 5, pp. 125- 

 160, fiijs. I), charts 7; 6, pp. 161-196, figs. //, charts 6). — In addition to the 

 usual reports on forecasts, warnings, weather and crop conditions, meteoro- 

 logical tables and charts for the months of May and June, 190S, recent papers 

 bearing on meteorology and seismology, recent additions to the Weather Bureau 

 library, etc., these numbers contain the following articles and notes : 



No. .5. — Weather Influences Preceding the Evacuation of P>oston, Mass. (illus.), 

 by W. N. Lacy ; The Work of Prof. Carl Stcirnu'r on Birkeland's Theory of the 

 Aurora P>orealis, by J. A. Anderson; The Warm Stratum in the Atmosphere, 

 by A. L. Kotch; Tornadoes in Louisiana, April 24, 1908 (illus.), by I. M. 

 Cline; Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 24, 1908, by W. S. Belden ; Tornadoes 

 in Alabama, April 24 and 30, 190S (illus.), by F. P. Chaffee; Tornado at Dora 

 and Bergens, Ala., April 24, 1908 (illus.), by W. F. Lehman; Observations of a 

 Tornado near Fort Worth, Tex., by D. S. Landis ; Tornadoes in Minnesota on 

 May 24, 1908 ; Severe I^ocal Storm in Florida ; A Hurricane in the West Indies 

 in March, 1908, by J. T. Quin ; Tornado at Pekin, 111., March 27, 1908, by D. A. 

 Seeley; Windstorm at Peoria, 111., May 5, 1908, by D. A. Seeley ; Ice Condi- 

 tions on the Great Lakes, Winter of 1907-8, by N. B. Conger ; Early Meteorol- 

 ogy at Harvard College, by B. ]M. A'arney; The Meteor of October 5, 1907, 

 Over New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by H. A. Peck ; Some Meteorological Uses 

 of the Polariscope, by L. Bell (E. S. R., 20, p. 13) ; Ice Movements and Cur- 

 rents in Bering Strait; An Elementary Method of Deriving the Deflecting 

 Force Due to the Earth's Rotation (illus.), by T. Okada ; aud biographical note 

 on William M. Husson. 



No. G. — A Graduate School of Meteorology; Progressive Climatic Variations 

 on the Isthmus of Panama (illus.), by H.L.Abbot; Severe Windstorms in Ohio, 

 June 19, 1908 (illus.), by J. W. Smith; Severe Windstorm in South Dakota, 

 by S. W. Glenn; Tides of the Solid Earth, Observed by Doctor Hecker (illus.), 

 by R. L. Faris ; Some Climatic Influences in American History, by W. N. 

 Lacy; Damage by Frost at Middlebranch, Ohio (illus.); The Climate of 

 Spokane, Wash., by C. Stewart ; The Climate of the Canadian Yukon ; The 

 Study of English [for Meteorologists] : The Smithsonian Meteorological Tables; 

 National Conservation Commission ; Where and How Can Our Observers Pursue 

 the Study of Modern Science? Weather Bureau jNIen as University Students, 

 by J. K. Hooper: and An Annotated Bibliography of Evaporation, by Mrs. G. J. 

 Livingston. 



Meteorological observations at the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, J. E. Ostrander and R. C. Linublad (Massachusetts Sta. Met. 

 Buls. 235, 236, pp. Jf each). — Summaries of observations at Amherst, Mass., on 

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

 casual phenomena during July and August, 1908. The data are briefly discussed 

 In general notes on the weather of each month. 



Meteorology, F. W. Christensen and H. D. Edmiston {Pennsi/lrania Sta. 

 Rpt. 1907, pp. 28-39, 175-198) .—The observations here recorded are of the 

 same character as those reported in previous years (E. S. R., 19, p. 814). 

 Monthly summaries of observations are given in the body of the report and the 

 detailed record in an appendix. The summary for 1906 is as follows: 



