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It has encouraged the study of meteorology in educational institutions byallowing 

 its scientists, outside of their official duties. to deliver courses of lectures to students, 

 s<> that there are now twenty institutions of learning where mete< >rology forms a part 

 of the curriculum, thereby giving preliminary training to the young men who, in 

 after years, will succeed to the duties now performed by the meteorologists of the 

 ( rovernment. 



Three years ago the Bureau began the establishing, at Mount Weather. V*a., of an 

 institution devoted purely to meteorological research. This observatory was estab- 

 lished to enable the Bureau to raise its work in meteorological research to the same 

 plane as thai occupied by its work in practical meteorology. The plant is especially 

 adapted to atmospheric research and is equipped with a physical laboratory in w bich 

 all questions which yield to treatment by experimenl as distinct from pure observa- 

 tion can be investigated. An outline is given of lines of investigation which may be 

 profitably undertaken in the laboratories of the Mounl Weather observatory. 



Monthly Weather Review {Mo. Weather Rev., SS 1905), Nos. W, pp. ; 

 jii/. I, charts 10; 11, pp. 471-514, fig- 1, churls ii\. — In addition t<> the usual reports on 

 forecasts, warnings, weather and crop condition-, meteorological tables and charts for 

 the months of October and November, L905, recent papers bearing on meteorology, 

 recent additions to the Weather Bureau library, etc., these uumbers contain the fol- 

 low ing articles and notes: 



No. io. — Special contributions on The Ziegler Relief Expedition, by O. L. Fassig; 

 Standing Clouds Among the North Carolina Mountains, by V. W Proctor; Sounding 

 and Pilot Balloons over the Ocean, by Prince of Monaco; Weather Bureau Cipher 

 Codes, by E. B. Garriott; and notes on meteorology of the planet Mars. Mr. 

 Harry B. Wren, Eiffel's "Etudes pratiques," methods of teaching meteorology, the 

 rainfall of Mexico, temperatures on Mount Rose, New, protection from frost, publi- 

 cation of thermograms in facsimile, structure of hailstones, tin' pagoscope versus the 

 daily weather map, Weather Bureau men as educators, meteorology in colleges and 

 universities, meteorology in German universities, unusually early snow in Alaska, 

 and the deflection to the right (illus. ). 



No. 11. — Special contributions on The Importance of a Well Written Synopsis of 

 Weather Conditions, by X. R. Taylor; Results of the Work Done at the Aeronautical 

 Observatory of the Royal Prussian Meteorological Institute, from January 1, L903, 

 to December 31, 1904, by S. Hanzlik; Highest Kite Ascension, by C. F. Marvin; 

 The Rainfall of China and Korea (illus. ), by T. Okada; The Development of Meteor- 

 ology in Australia, by A.Noble; Storm Warnings for Lake Vessels, by E. B. Garriott; 

 and notes on a guide to the observation of earthquakes, Indian summer, a lecture on 

 snow crystals, physical societies and journals, cold and heat, meteors- their incan- 

 descence and their noise, meteorological literature in the public libraries, standard 

 time at Key West, influence of location on the winds, and a mistake about atmos- 

 pheric dust. 



Meteorology and climatology, W. Trabert {Meteorologu "//</ Klimatologie. 

 Leipsic: Devticke, 1905, pp. 127, figs. ./;.• rev. in Nature [London], 78 I 1905), N 

 p. 149). — This book forms part 13 of Klar's "Die Erdkunde," and outlines the gen- 

 eral principles of meteorology and their application to the study of climate. It deals 

 with the meteorological elements and tin- making and reducing of observations, 

 atmospheric physics, the distribution of temperature and its variations, the circula- 

 tion of the atmosphere, evaporation and condensation, weather and climate, includ- 

 ing weather forecasting, types of climate, and the climatic characteristics < >\ t he mam 

 land divisions of the globe. 



Meteorological chart of the Great Lakes, A. J. Henry and N. B. Conobb 

 | U. S. Dept. Agr., Weather Ho,-.. Met. Chart Great ink,*, 1905, No. /, pp. /.'>. /-/. /).— 

 This is a summary of observations on the meteorological conditions of the winter of 

 1904-5 in the lake region, with notes on the opening of the navigation season of 1905, 



