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positiou of the earth's axis of rotation, and this supposition is confirmed 

 by similar plienomena in the southern hemisphere. {Meteorologische 

 Zeitschrift, 1889, p. [85].) 



Mr. H. H. Howorth adduces a variety of evidence going to prove that 

 Siberia during the mammoth age was possessed of a temperate climate 

 and was probably occupied by forests to the borders of the Arctic 

 Ocean. Schmidt and others have shown that rooted trunks of trees 

 are found in the beds containing mammoth remains far north of the 

 present range of trees. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF METEOROLOGY FOR 1889. 

 By O. L. Fassig. 



Abbe, Clkveland. Treatise ou meteorological apparatus and methods. Annual 

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Determination of the amount of rain-fall. Amer. Met. Journ., Ann Arbor, vi. 



1889, 241-248. 



The red sunset skies of 1884-'85. Amer. Met. Journ., Ann Arbor, v, 1888-89, 



529-544. 



Abercromby, Ralph. Seas and skies in manj' latitudes or wanderings in search of 

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Upper wind currents over the equator in the Atlantic ocean. Xature, Lon- 

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On Meldrum's rules for handling ships in the hurricanes of the southern 



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 Aguilar Santillan, Rafael. Apuntes para el studio de las lluvias en Mexico. 



Mem. soc. cieu. Antonio Alzate, Mexico, ii, 1H88-'89, 97-122. Abstract in: Mcf- 



Zeit.«chr., Wien, vi, 1889, 149-151. 

 An. Erliiuternde Besprechungen der neuen " Instruktion fiir die Beobachter an den 



meteorologischen Stationeu ii, in, und iv. Ordnung des ktiniglich preussischen 



meteorologischeu Instituts." i. Das Welter, Braunsch., vi, 1889, 80-85. 

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Ueber Luftdruck-Schwaukungeu. Gwa, Coin, Heft, ix, 1889, 534-542. 



Angot, Alfred. Sur le calcul do la variation annuelle des elements ni6t<5orolo- 



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 . Sur les observations de temperature au somraet do la tour Eiffel. Compt. 



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 Sur la Vitesse du vent au sommet de la tour Eififel. Compt. rend.. Par., cix, 



1889, 697-699. 

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1887 (1889), I (ni6m.), B. 237-15. 344. 

 Angstrom, K. Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Absorption der Wiirmestrahleu durch die 



verschiedeuen Bestandtheile der Atmosphiire. Bihang K. Svenslc. Vet. Ak. Handl., 



Stockh., XV, 1889, 1-29. 

 Arata, Pedro U. El clima y las condiciones higi^nicas de Buenos Aires. 4to. 



Buenos Aires, 1889. 



