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Laws regrulating- the transportation and sale of game, T. S. Palmer and 

 H. W. Olds {U. S. Dept. Ayr., Dicision of Biological Surveij Bui. 14, pp. S9, j>/s. 9). — 

 This bulletin contains a compilation of the sections of various State laws which relate 

 to the transportation and sale of game, and also tables and diagrams showing close 

 seasons, species prohibited from shipment or sale, limits of game bags, and regula- 

 tions concerning nonresident licenses. 



METEOROLOGY— CLIMATOLOGY. 



Monthly Weather Review {JJ. S. Dept. Ap'., Weather Bureau, 

 Mvnthhj W.atJor E,euir^^S{1900), Ms. 7,x>i). 279-320, pis. 3, jigs. 2, 

 cluirts 8; <§, ^j>p. 321-370, figs. ^, charts 8; 9, pp. 371-Jf.2Jf., fig. 1, charts 

 13). — In addition to the usual reports on forecasts, warnings, weather 

 and crop conditions, meteorological tables and charts for the months 

 of July, August, and September, 1900, these numbers contain the 

 following articles and notes: 



Xo. 7, special contributions on Fog studies on Mount Tamalpais (illus. ), by A. G. 

 McAdie; Electric phenomena in the Euphrates Valley (illus.), by E. Huntmgton; 

 Sudden disappearance of ice on the lakes, by H. H. Ten Broeck; Meteorological notes 

 from Porto Eico, by E.. M. Geddings; Forecasting for the farmer, by C. D. Eeed; and 

 Thunderstorms near "Washington, by II. "W. and H. S. Cragin; and notes by the editor 

 on electric jihenomena in the Euphrates Valley, notable lightning, the French edi- 

 tion of the Monthly Weather Eeview, Eafinesque on atmospheric dust, lightning 

 from a cloudless sky, "Weather Bureau station on Turks Island, wells and storms, the 

 frecpiency and extent of destructive hail, atmosi^heric conditions favorable to cotton 

 spinning, aurora in Florida, and progress in wireless telegraphy. 



No. 8, special contributions on Nile floods and monsoon rains (E. S. E., 12, p. 424); 

 Meteorological observations during the burning of the plant of the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany at Bayonne, N. J., July 5, 6, and 7, 1900, by "W^. H. Mitchell; Observations for 

 local thunderstorms at Sky land. Page County, Va., August, 1900 (illus.), by H. "W. 

 and H. S. Cragin; Climatology of St. Kitts, "W. I., by "W. S. Alexander; and The hot 

 ■weather of August, 1900 (illus. ), by A. J. Henry; and notes by the editor on "Weather 

 Bureau men as instructors, monthly statement of average weather conditions, meteor- 

 ological records in Ohio, climatological atlas of the Eussian Empire, the influence of 

 the Lakes on temperature of the land, and hydrography of Nicaragua. 



No. 9, special contributions on Thunderstorms at Antigua, "W. I., by "W. H. Alex- 

 ander; The storm waves of South Carolina and Texas, by E. P. Alexander; The 

 "U'eather Bureau of Japan, by F. B. Wright; The color and the polarization of blue 

 skj-light, by N. E. Dorsey; Observations for local thunderstorms at Skyland, Page 

 County, Va., September, 1900, by W. H. and H. S. Cragin; 3Ieteorological observa- 

 tions at Eagle, Alaska, by A. J. Henry; Eesults of a balloon ascension at St. Peters- 

 burg, May 20-Jmie 1, 1878, by M. Eykatcheff ; The Gulf stream myth, by H. M. Watts; 

 A review of Professor Very's memoir on atmospheric radiation, byN. E. Dorsey; and 

 Monthly statement of average weather conditions for September, by E. B. Garriott; 

 and notes by the editor on standard time, the frequency of hail in the United States, 

 the crop as depending on meteorological conditions, and meteorological report from 

 Nome, Alaska, September, 1900. 



Report on the international cloud observations, F. H. Bigelow 



{U. S. Dtpt. .If//'., ^yeather Burtau. Rpt. 1898-99, IT, p>P' 787, pi. 1, 

 figs. 32, charts 73). — This report gives the detailed results of cloud 



