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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



extensive experience with mounted specimens of birds and animals in museums the 

 author concludes that the use of arsenical soaps upon such specimen.* has no influ- 

 ence in preventing the attacks of museum pests upon the specimens. Anthrenus varius 

 was found to deposit its eggs and multiply as rapidly in skins which had Ijeen treated 

 with this soap as in those which had received no treatment. 



METEOROLOGY. 



Report of the director of the New York Weather Bureau, 1898, 



E. A. FuERTES {Bjjt. ^w Toi'l' State Dept. Agr., G {1S9S), IL pp. 

 l-Ji-73, charts 28). — This report includes dailj^ and monthly summaries 

 of observations on temperature at some 96 stations in 61 counties of 

 the State, on precipitation at 120 stations, and on atmospheric pressure 

 at 8 stations, a review of the crop conditions during- the year, and 

 descriptions and brief historical accounts of some of the stations of the 

 bureau. 



The average temperature for the State during 1898 was 48.1° F. ; the highest was 

 103°, at Primrose and West Point, July 3; the lowest, — 40°, at Elizabethtown, Febru- 

 ary 3. The average pressure was 30.03 in.; the highest, 30.71 in., at AUmny, March 

 26; lowest, 28.97 in., at Number Four, February 15. The average precipitation was 

 43.56 in.; the greatest, 69.2 in., at Brentwood; the lowest, 28.8 in., at Ogdensburg. 

 The average snow fall was 62.4 in., ranging from 143 in. at Number Four to 40 to 65 

 in. in the interior of the State, and 30 to 40 in. on the coast. The numljer of days on 

 which precipitation amounted to 0.01 in. was 137. The average cloudiness was 54 

 per cent. 



The prmcipal features of the season from October, 1897, to Septeml^er, 1898, are 

 shown in the following table: 



MontJdy temperature and jirecipitation and departures of each from the normal. 



"The average temperature for the year was unusually high, a deficiency obtain- 

 ing for the month of April only .... The crop season on the whole was fairly 

 successful. ' ' 



Meteorology, W. Frear and C. W. Norkis {Pc/insi/Ivajua Sta. 

 Bpt. ISOO, pp. 257-277, j?-b'4-J4J).— "The work of the past 2 years 

 has been chiefly a continuation of the preceding j^ears [E. S. R., 9, p. 

 815], including observations of the kind usually made 1)V the United 



