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the north of Spitzbergeii, latitude 79° o4', longitude 1G° 15'' east. The 

 locality' is well known to the Swedes. Professor Nordenslijold staid 

 there in the winter of 1872 and '73 with three ships. A Swedish man- 

 of-war will take the expedition to Mossel -Bay, under the command of 

 Captain Palander, who, after having fixed the special meteorological 

 station of Captain Malmberg, will return to Sweden. {Nature, July, 

 1881, XXIV, p. 295.) 



The proposed Physical Observatory in Hong-Kong is, we regret to 

 see, still under consideration, notwithstanding Major Palmer's complete 

 scheme was in the hands of the colonial office in 1882. It is to be hoped 

 that he may be engaged upou the work before he leaves China. {Na- 

 ture, XXVI, p. 113.) 



The Shanghai General Chamber of CoQimerce has received an elabo- 

 rate report from Father de Chevrens, of Zikawei, on the proposed me- 

 teorological system for the protection of the Chinese shipping. He 

 recommends that the Zikawei Observatory should receive twice daily 

 observations telegraphed from Manila, Hong-Kong, Amoy, Tientsin, 

 Nagasaki, and Vladivostock. {Nature, xxv, p. 368.) 



Woeikoff suggests that Chinese typhoon warnings will always be 

 unsatisfactory until telegraphic connection is made with Formosa and 

 the Loo Choo Islands. {Nature, xxv, p. 410.) 



The Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai has failed to secure the co- 

 operation of the Chinese maritim customs in meteorological observa- 

 tions on the coast of China, but as the latter, under the inspectorate of 

 Sir Robert Hart, has long since promised to establish its own system, we 

 may still hope to see that realized. {Nature, xxvi, p. 136.) 



Sir Robert Hart, insi)ector-general of Chinese maritime customs, has 

 directed that meteorological observations at all Chinese ports be sent 

 regularly to Shanghai; we presume that this is part of the meteorolog- 

 ical system promised by Mr. Hart at the Vienna Conference in 1874. 

 {Nature, xxvi, p. 414.) 



The telegraph line between Shanghai and Pekin — which is the first 

 of any length in China — has been opened to traffic, and has already 

 found some useful application in the distribution of weather informa. 

 tion. 



Maxwell Hall, of Kingston, Jamaica, writes that he is slowly pro- 

 gressing in his efforts to establish a proper meteorological system for 

 the West Indies. An international system of observation, reports, storm 

 warnings, &c., will be fully practicable only when the British colonial 

 government takes steps to encourage his labors; meanwhile he is 

 elaborating a system of observations for Jamaica that will, he hopes, 

 eventually cover the whole isle, and will be found practically useful in 

 weather predictions and in the development of special agricultural and 

 botanical enterprises. {Nature, xxv, p. 18.) 



The observations made in Iceland for the Scottish Meteorological 

 Society by Mr. Thorlacius, show that in that island the mean barometric 



