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diminished ]ire88ure on cooking, sudden temperature changes in Montana (illus. ), 

 weather forecast cards by rural delivery, ice and navigation at St. Michael, Alaska, 

 Oregon weather and Bering Sea ice, the Brooklyn museum of meteorology, lectures 

 on meteorology, meteorology in the universities, the Weather Bureau and the uni- 

 versities, the climatology of California, and isotherms for a given altitude. 



No. 5, special contributions on Special report on the floods in the Brazos River 

 Valley, Texas, April 27 to May 17, 1900; also freshets in other streams (illus.), by 

 I. M. Cline; Oregon weather and Bering Sea ice, by E. A. Beals; Local storm at 

 Springfield, Mo., by J. S. Hazen; Prof. P. E. Doudna, by F. Cajori; Halo at Detroit, 

 Mich., ^lay, 1900 (illus.), by J. K, Hooper; Lake levels ami wind phenomena (illus.), 

 by A. J. Henry; and notes by the editor on rainfall in Jamaica for 1899, Oregon 

 weather and Bering Sea ice, seasonal forecasts in Colorado, the thunderstorm of May 

 16 in Idaho, the Hawaiian standard of time, heavy rainfall in local storms, the June 

 rise of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, a meteorological library, monument to 

 Cantoni, lectures on meteorology, the drift of the Gulf stream near Key West, Fla., 

 eclipse shadow bands and correlated atmospheric; phenomena, storm warnings on 

 the Oregon coast, index to the monthly reports of the California section, and Cape 

 Nome temperatures. 



No. (), special contributions on Extension of Weather Bureau work, by E. B. 

 Garriott; Rainfall and drainage in the Upper Chagres River, by H. L. Abbot; Cloud- 

 burst at Erwin, Tenn., by S. G. Worth; The seismograph at the observatory at Carson 

 City, Nev. (illus.), by C. W. Friend; Droughts, famines, and forecasts in India, by 

 E. D. Archibald; and notes by the editor on meteorological cablegrams, a local 

 weather sign, climatology in California, meteorological conditions favorable to spon- 

 taneous combustion, Weather Bureau service in Haiti, the laws of atmospheric circu- 

 lation, prevention of hail by cannonading, the Weather Bureau in Dominica, W. I,, 

 the Nile floods and the Indian monsoons, another use for the kite, a new meteor- 

 ological journal, weather cablegrams from the Azores, and i)ineapple growing in 

 southern Florida. 



Meteorological summary for 1898, V. E. Muncy {Kentuch/ St<l. Rpt. 1898, jyp. 

 XXXI Y-XX XIX). — Tabular monthly sununaries are given of observations at Lex- 

 ington, Ky., on atmospheric pressure, temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, and 

 wind. The mean barometric pressure for the year was 29.01 in., the highest 29.66, 

 lowest 28.29; mean temperature 64.40° F. ; the highest 9(), July 2; lowest — 1, Decem- 

 ber 14; total annual ])recipitation 60.52 in. 



Meteorological observations, W. T. Ellis etal. {Canada Expt. Farins Rpts. 1899, 

 pp. 41, 42, 2'21-229, 258,335, 388, 425). — Summaries are given of observations during 

 1899 on temperature, precipitation (rainfall and snow fall), and sunshine at Ottawa; 

 Nappan, Nova Scotia; Brandon, Manitol«i; Indian Head, Northwest Territories; and 

 Agassiz, British Columbia. 



Meteorological conditions of the cultural year 1898-99, P. de Calume 

 {Expose Cult. Expcr. Jard. Gand, 1898-99, pp. 1-5). — A summary of observations, 

 mainly on temperature and precipitation, during the year ended October 31, 1899. 



Normal distribution of rainfall in the Madras Presidency, C. Benson {An 

 accuunt af tlic iioriiKd d'lstrdmtion of the ralnfaJI in tlw Madras Presidency J>ased on. the 

 records of tirenty-fire years. Madras: Priutrd 1/y the Superintendent, Governuient Press, 

 1899, ]ij). "20, charts 10) . — This is a report of the deputy director of the Department 

 of Land Records and Agriculture. The rainfall conditions are charted and discussed 

 with the following arbitrary divisions of the year: (1) The hot weather, April and 

 May; (2) the southwest monsoon, June to September; (3) the northeast monsoon, 

 October to Decend)er, and (4) the dry weather, Januarj"^ to March. 



Storms and hail during the years 1897 and 1898 in Steiermark, Karnten, 

 and Ober-Krain, K. Pkohaska {Mitt. Natnrw. Ver. tSteiennark, 1897, No. 34, pp. 



