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broken threads which need to be completed l)y making a similar collec- 

 tion of not only the remaining Gerujan, but all other meteorological lit- 

 erature. General W. B. Hazen, having decided that in view of the im- 

 portance of the subject the Signal Office should complete the index to 

 meteorological literature already in its possession in the shape of a 

 large card catalogue, has solicited contributions of titles from all inter- 

 ested in the subject, and has appointed Mr. 0. J. Sawyer as biblio- 

 graphic expert to prepare the work for publication. The office will also 

 make a special examination of various important libraries, serials, and 

 other sources. As this work is, properly speaking, only a hand book for 

 the use of working meteorologists, it has been deemed most desirable to 

 finish it in a short time without incurring such delay as might be needed 

 to prepare a work of bibliographic elegance. Consequently the major- 

 ity of the titles will be taken from Eeuss, Poggendorf, the Eoyal So- 

 ciety, Hellmann, Symons, and other authorities without directly con- 

 sulting the volumes themselves. It is expected that the work will 

 occupy two volumes containing forty or fifty thousand titles in all, and 

 that a first part will go to press early in 18S0.J 



90. Prof Frank Waldo, of Washington, in a short note on the study 

 of meteorology in Europe, shows that in 1883 out of thirty-eight German 

 universities only fourteen had established special chairs for this study. 

 In respect to this Dr. Koppen remarks that i>robably this neglect had 

 already been partially rectified by 1884. The following is a list of those 

 who are more or less devoted to instruction of this class {D. M. Z., i, p. 

 148): 



University of Berlin ; Dr. Thiesen. 



Technological School at Brunswick ; Dr. H. Weber. 



University at Czernowitz ; Professors Supan and Handl. 



Technological School at Darmstadt ; Dr. Gobel and Prof. E. Dorn. 



Technical School at Gratz ; Professor Wilhelm. 



University at Halle ; Professors Knoblauch, Overbeck, and Cornelius, 

 and Dr. Lehmann. 



University at Heidelberg ; Professor Kopp. 



University at Innspruck ; Professors Torre and Pfaundler, and Dr. 

 Tollinger. 



Polytechnic School at Carlsruhe ; Professor Sohncke. 



University at Konigsberg ; Professor Zox)pritz. 



University of Leipsic ; Professor Bruns. 



University of Eostock ; Professor Mathiessen. 



Polytechnic School at Stuttgart; Professors Dietrich and von Schroe- 

 der. 



(Jniversity at Vienna : Professors Hann and Simony. 



High School at Zurich ; Dr. Weilenmann. 



The following have since been announced: 



University of Giessen ; Prof. H. Hoffmann ; Dr. Fromo will begin in 

 1884. 



