560 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



are given on insect remedies for Novenil)er, treatment for San Jose scale, destruction 

 of rats, protection of l)ir(ls, notes on game laws, etc. 



Game laws for 1903, T. S. Pai.mek, II. Oldys, and R. W. Williams, Jr. ( U. S. 

 Dept. A(jr., Farmers^ Bid. ISO, pp. 56,figH. 5). — This is a revised and condensed form 

 of Bulletin 16 of the Division of Biological Survey (E. S. R., 13, p. 532). The 

 special purpose is to present in a brief form information regarding the game laws and 

 re(juirements concerning the shipment and sale of game. 



METEOROLOGY— CLIMATOLOGY. 



Monthly Weather Review {Mo. Weather Rev., 31 {1903), Nos. 7, pp. 309-364, 

 Ji(/!<. 1./, clinrlH .'/; ,v, jij). 36'j-40(J, fig.f. 8, charts 10; 9, pp. 407-448, charts 10). — Inaddi- 

 ti(jn to the usual rei)orts on forecasts, warnings, weather and crop conditions, 

 meteorological tables and charts for the months of July, August, and September, 

 1903, recent papers bearing on meteorology, etc., these numbers contain the following 

 articles and notes: 



No. 7. — Special contributions on Note upon Economical Shapes f(3r Cutting 

 Envelopes of Balloons (illus. ), by C. F. Marvin; Benjamin Thompson — Count 

 Ruinford (illus.), by D. T. Pierce, jr.; On Cm'ves Representing the Paths of Air in a 

 Special Type of Traveling Storm (illus.), by W. N. Shaw; The Meteorological Work 

 of the Expedition to the Bahamas, by O. L. Fassig; and Observations of Solar 

 Radiation with the Angstrom Pyrheliometer at Asheville and Black Mountain, N. C. 

 (illus.), by H. H. Kimball; and notes on the "guns" of Lake Seneca, N. Y.; varia- 

 tion of gravity over the deep sea; Weather Bureau men as instructors; the droughts 

 of 1901-1903; the rain maker in Australia; meteorology in the universities; the 

 movements of the air within areas of high and low pressure; and meteorology in the 

 summer schools. 



No. 8. — Special contributions on The Periodicity of Sun Spots and the Variations 

 of the Mean Annual Temperatures of the Atmosphere, by C. Nordmann; On the 

 Simultaneous Variations of Sun Spots and of Terrestrial Atmospheric Temperatures, 

 by A. Angot; Tlie Hurricane of August 11, 1903, at Jamaica, by H. H. Cousins; and 

 Soil Temperatures and Vegetation (illus.), by D. T. INIacDougal (see p. 563); and 

 notes on Weather Bureau men as instructors; the method adopted in constructing 

 normals; [meteorological observations on atrip] from New York to Cape Town; the 

 temperature of the upper air as observed on mountains and with kite meteorographs; 

 hurricane at Martinique, August, 1903 (illus. ) ; the resignation of H. Sow'erby Wallis; 

 retirement of Professor [George von] Neumayer; local storm in Baltimore, Md.; and 

 notes upon economical shapes for cutting envelopes of balloons. 



No. 9. — Special contributions on Weather Bureau Cooperation in Reclamation 

 Work, by F. H. Brandenburg; Hurricane in the Gulf of INlexico, by J. Elligers, jr.; 

 Methods of Meteorological Investigation, by W^. N. Shaw (E. S. R., 15, p. 341) ; and 

 The Hurricane Season, by E. del Monte; and notes on fiftieth anniversary of the 

 Meteorological Societj'- of France; meteorology at Williams College, Massachusetts; 

 a seven-year cycle in rainfall in Illinois; AVeather Bureau men as instructors; the new 

 Weather Bureau station in Yellowstone Park, W'yo. ; sun spots and weather; small 

 lightning discharges between the raindrops; old weather record at Fairmount, Onon- 

 daga County, N. Y. ; and hurricane on SeiJtendjer 11 in the Bahamas. 



Report of the meteorologist, W. H. Bishop {Delaware Sta. Rpt. 1902, jjp. 152- 

 158). — Monthly summaries of ol»ervations at 3 places in Delaware on temperature, 

 pressure, precipitation, relative humidity, and prevailing winds during the year 

 ended June 30, 1902, are given, with a summary of observations on temperature and 

 precipitation during the calendar year 1901. The summary for 1901 is as follows: 



