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that have for some years been published by the Army Sigual Office. 

 As the latter office has received reports from about 500 vessels, it is 

 evident that the proposed work of the London office is one of no small 

 magnitude. We bope that it may give a great stimnlus to meteorolog- 

 ical observations at sea. {Nature, xxv, p. 606.) 



Mr. Cruls, temporarily director of the observatory at Eio Janeiro, 

 has established the publication of the astronomical bulletin of that ob- 

 servatory. He has also established a time-ball similar to that at Green- 

 wich. {Nature, xxvi, p. 352.) 



A great international fisheries exhibition will be held in London, at 

 the Gardens of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, in 1883. At the Copen- 

 hagen meeting of the International Meteorological Committee it was 

 resolved to invite the weather bureaus of all countries to contribute at 

 the same time towards a complete display of all systems of forecasting 

 weather and forewarning of storms, and of whatever else in their work 

 seemed to bear upon the fishing industries. {Nature, Vol. xxvi,p. 480.) 



Bischoffsheim, the member of the French Deputies for Nice, liaving 

 built a fine observatory near that city, on Mont Gros, at an altitude of 

 about 1,000 feet, and within a park of 80 acres, has appointed Perrotin 

 director of the observatory, Carvallo assistant director, and Puiseux 

 in charge of meteorologic and magnetic observations. The observa- 

 tory will be under the general charge of the Bureau of Longitudes, its 

 entire cost and endowment having been donated by the munificent 

 banker. 



The French departmental meteorological commissions hold an annual 

 meeting under the presidency of the minister ot iiublic instruction. 

 At the meeting of April 18, 1882, it was announced that the Central 

 Bureau receives daily 97 telegrams from foreign parts and 52 from 

 France. Five maps are drawn in the morning and three in the evening ; 

 warnings are sent by telegraph to aid agricultural and maritime districts; 

 82 per cent, of verifications are claimed. {Nature, xxi, p. 593.) 



A geographical association was established in 1882 at Jena, under 

 the presidency of Dr. E. E. Schmid. 



At the annual distribution of prizes by the Paris Academy of Sciences, 

 February 6, 1882, the prize of 5,000 francs was awarded to Brault for 

 his studies in marine meteorology. 



The Eoyal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana 

 proposes to publish meteorological information in its journal, edited by 

 Mr. E. F. Im-Thurn. It is to be earnestly hoped that the meteorology of 

 this interesting part of the world may be more thoroughly studied. {Na- 

 ture, xxv, p. 419.) 



Neumayer and Buys-Ballot have respectively received gold medals 

 from the Dutch Society of Sciences at Harlem for eminent services in 

 meteorology. Among the prize subjects announced by this society for 

 the year 1883 are the mariner's compass, the ditfusion of light, the con- 



