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pressure was remarkably low while the temperature was high during 

 the winter of lS81-'82. This mild winter has been followed by a very 

 cold summer. A general study of the distribution of pressure and 

 temiDerature over Northern Europe during this period has been under- 

 taken by Wild. {Nature, xxvi, p. 322.) 



Dr. Steineger, of Norway, has been sent to establish meteorological 

 stations on the Eussian side of the Bering Sea. [Professor Wild writes 

 that he has also made some effort to procure observations in that re- 

 gion. A knowledge of the storms of the North Pacific would seem to 

 be. an important desideratum to the United States Signal Service if ever 

 it is to make early predictions of the storms that arrive on the Pacific 

 coast.] {Nature, xxvi, p. 113.) 



The scientific results of the Jeannette expedition were partially lost, 

 but the many important records will, it is believed, be published as a 

 part of the proceedings of the Board of Inquiry which has been investi- 

 gating all the particulars relating to this expedition and that of the 

 Rodgers, which vesselw as sent in search of the former. The Jeannette 

 was 20 miles northeast of Herald Island on September 5, 1880, when she 

 was frozen in, and for twenty-one months thereafter was drifting towards 

 the northwest in the ice-pack. She was lost on June 13, 1882, at 77^"^ 

 north and 155° east. {Nature, xxvi, p. 479.) 



The International Meteorological Committee, Messrs. Wild, Scott, 

 Buys-Ballot, Cantoui, de Brito Capello, Haun, Mascart, Mohn, Neu- 

 mayer, appointed by the Congress of Eome, held its first meeting at the 

 Observatory, Berne, from the 9th to the 12th of September, 1880. 

 All the members of the committee were present. The committee recom- 

 mend that each national meteorological office carry out a comparison of 

 its own standard instruments with those of other countries ; it also re- 

 commended that all organizations publish regularly the mean values for 

 the most important meteorological elements for the telegraphic and in- 

 ternational stations. Messrs. Scott and Ilellmanu were appointed to act 

 as a committee on publication of a catalogue of meteorological literature, 

 the cost of which was estimated at £550 ibr the manuscript and £750 for 

 the publication. 3Iessrs. Mascart and Wild were appointed to prepare 

 a plan for collecting and publishing numerical tables for the reduction of 

 observation^. 



The second meeting of the Internaiional Meteorological Committee took 

 place at Copenhagen, August 1, 1882. The following are among the pro- 

 ceedings of this meeting: It was rasolved, Jirsf, to organize in London an 

 exhibition of storm-warning and other correlated apparatus; second, to 

 collect information relative to meteorological observations; third, to re- 

 quest precise observations as to the time of rain, &c.', fourth, to request 

 that monthly means be published promptly; ./(/YA, to secure observations 

 in distant localities; sixth, to encourage the publications of daily weather 

 charts of the Atlantic Ocean ; seventh, to recognize the importance of 

 weather telegrams from Iceland and the Faroe Islands; eighth, to publish 



