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published by Prof. Dr. G. Krobs ; A.sfronomische Nachrichten, the well- 

 known astronomical journal now imblished at Kiel by Professor Krue- 

 ger; Geographuchc MittheiUnigen, the well-known geographical journal 

 now published by Professor Sii))an, at Gotha; Hydrographische Mit- 

 theilungm, i)ublished by the German Admiralty, I>erliii. 



22. Cai)t. N. Iloffmeyer and Dr. George Xeumayer having agreed to 

 continue conjointly the dailj^ synoptic weather charts for the Atlantic 

 Ocean and Europe, beginning with the 1st of December, 1880, this im- 

 portant work has therefore been kept up. The expenses are largely 

 defrayed by the subscriptions of those interested in meteorology, and 

 more such are solicited. The charts show the eastern half of North 

 America, the West Indies, and the northern coast of Brazil, the whole 

 of the North Atlantic, Greenland, Europe, and the western half of 

 Siberia. They represent the condition of the weather in the morning 

 about 8 A. M., or local time. The base chart is ai)parently a conical 

 development on a scale about four times as large as that of the United 

 States international map of the northern hemisphere, and three fourths 

 of that formerly adopted by Hoffinger; it therefore shows every station 

 and every ship's report. If the British ofiice publishes special charts 

 for each day of the international polar campaign, from the 1st of August, 

 1882, to the 31st, then the German Government will probably supple- 

 ment these charts by corresponding daily series for the South Atlantic 

 Ocean. {Z. 0. G. M., xix, p. 30.) 



23. The Italian Meteorological Association, having its central obser- 

 vatory at the Koyal College of Carl Albert, in Moncalieri,has continued 

 to publish a monthly bulletin, which is considered as a second series, 

 beginning with January, 1881 ; the first series being the iuonth\y Annu- 

 ah'e, published by Ragona. The present bulletin is under the editor- 

 ship of Denza, who has secured stations not only throughout Italy and 

 the Alps, but also throughout South America. {Z. 0. G. M., xviii, p. 

 357.) 



24. The central office for Italian meteorology has continued to publish 

 its magnificent series of large quarto volumes of Annales. These vol- 

 umes are divided into three portions; the first contains reports on spe- 

 cial work, such as Millosevich on rainfall, Ragona on the wind, Chistoni 

 on magnetism and barometric comparisons, Ferrari on thunder-storms. 

 The second portion contains synopses of the meteorological observa- 

 tions. The third portion contains the astronomical work at the Rome 

 Observatory under Tacchini. 



25. The Meteorological Institute of Saxony since 1863 has been a 

 bureau of the Astronomical Observatory at Leipsic, but an important 

 advance was made on the 1st of April, 1884, in tlie appointment of Dr. 

 P. Schreiber, of Chemnitz, as director of the Meteorological Institute, 

 which is now reorganized and placed on an independent basis in the 

 Department of the Interior. Dr. Schreiber is well known by his works 

 on meteorology and barometric hypsometry, and the new institution at 



