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Monthly Weather Review (Mo. Weather Rev., 36 (1908), Nos. 11, pp. 357-39',, 

 figs. 2, tliarts 8; l.i, pp. 395-Ji3.'f, figs. 3, clidrts 9). — In addition to the usual 

 reports on forecasts, warnings, weather and croi) conditions, meteoi'ological 

 tables and charts for tlie months of November and December, VM)H, recent 

 papers bearing on meteorology and seismology, recent additions to the Weatlier 

 Bureau library, notes from the Weather Bureau library, etc., these numbers 

 contain the following articles and notes: 



No. 11. — The Climate of the Historic I'ast (illus.), by E. Huntington; Notes 

 on the Climate of Eastern Asia, by A. J. Henry ; An Elementary Method of 

 Deriving the Deflecting Force due to the Earth's notation for West-east Motion 

 (illus.), by W. H. Jackson; Titles of Papers Read Before the German Meteoro- 

 logical Association; Relation Between the Range of Air Temperature and the 

 Distribution of Dand and Water, by M. Tsutsui ; A Comparison of the Changes 

 in the Temperature of the Waters of the North Atlantic and in the Strength of 

 the Trade Winds, by W. C. Hepworth; Kassner's Meteorological Globes, by R. 

 DeC. AVard; Luminous Fog; Brilliant Gulf Waters; New System of Storm 

 Signals for Norway, by F. S. S. Johnson ; Recent Progress in California ; Sug- 

 gested Reform in INIeteorological Methods, by A. G. McAdie; and An Annotated 

 Bibliography of Evaporation, by Mrs. G. J. Livingston. 



No. 12. — Studies on the Vortices of the Atmosphere of the Earth (illus.), by 

 F. H. Bigelow ; Deficient Humidity Indoors, by F. El. Day; Wireless Telegraphy 

 in the Service of Modern Meteorology, by P. Polls, trans, by C. F. Talman (see 

 p. 1011) ; Remarkable Snowstorm at Grand Haven, Mich., by C. H. Eshleman; 

 Tornadoes in AVisconsiu, November 25, 190S; Severe Windstorms in Ohio, Au- 

 gust 12 and 17, 190S, by J. W. Smith; Severe Windstoi-ms in New Mexico and 

 Oklahoma; A Luminous Meteor Cloud Observed at Urbana, 111. (illus.), by C. J. 

 Kullmer; The Training School at Tokyo, Japan, for Meteorological Observers; 

 The Class under Instruction at Washington; Formation of Dew at Tree Tops; 

 Hurricanes Affected by Mountain Ranges; Is the Earth Drying Fp?; Tasmania 

 and the Total Solar Eclipse ; Driest Tear at Portland, Me., by E. B. Jones ; 

 Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, Dublin, September, 1908, by W. N. Shaw ; 

 The Baltimore Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, by W. R. Blair; The Baltimore Meeting of the Association of American 

 Geographers; and Tornadoes in Arkansas during November, 1908 (illus.). 



Meteorological observations at the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, J. E. Ostkandek and R. C Lindblad (Massacliusctis Sta. Met. Buls. 

 2)1, ,i.'i2, pp. Jf eaeli). — Summaries of observations at Amherst, Mass., on pres- 

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

 casual phenomena during January and Fel)ruary, 1909. The data are briefly 

 discussed in general notes on the weather of each month. 



Meteorological report, 1907, F. H. Auld (Ami. Rpt. Dept. Agr. Prov. Sas- 

 katcheican, 1907, pp. 92-106). — This is a summary of observations on tempera- 

 ture and precipitation at 40 meteorological stations in Saskatchewan during 

 the year 1907. The weather of each month is described. 



Weather at Rothamsted in 1908, J. J. Willis (Gard. Chron., 3. set:, Jf5 

 (1909). Xo. ll')S, pp. 66, 67). — Observations on temperature, precipitation, and 

 general weather conditions are briefly summarized in this article. The year was 

 characterized by a deficiency of rainfall, the total being 25.31 in., as against an 

 average of 28.12 in. for the past 55 years. The mean temperature of the year, 

 48.2° F.. was slightly, 0.3°, in excess of the average. 



Danish meteorological conditions in 1907—8, V. Willaume-Jantzen (Tidsskr. 

 Lundokonomi. 1908. Xo. 13. pp. 660-689). — Conditions for each month from Octo- 

 ber. 1907, to September, 190S, inclusive, are summarized. 



