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servers, in IS'ew Eng:laiid ; they have established standard gauges of 

 three different patterns, and have pubhshed a monthly bulletin, with 

 rainfall map and other data. It is hoped that by the co-operation of 

 the states of New England this organization may become a New Eng- 

 land weather service.] 



6. In order to collect data for the information of Government on the 

 proposition to run steamship lines from England to stations on the 

 shores of Hudson's Bay, and thus afford British America a couvenieut 

 outlet for its immense product of grain, Lieut. W. E. Gordon has, under 

 the Canadian Meteorological Service, established seven stations on the 

 shores of the bay, at which observations were begun in the autumn 

 of 1884. These stations will contribute invaluable information for the 

 study of North American storms and climate. A sketch of the location 

 of each is given by W. P. Anderson in the Cambridge journal, {Science 

 for March 13, 1885,) full details being given in the report of Lieut. W. 

 R. Gordon. (See also Nature^ xxx, p. 041.) 



. 6. Dr. B. A. Gould has published additional volumes of the Annals 

 of the Meteorological Office of the Argentine Republic, which contain 

 original observations in full, and many interesting items relative to 

 Buenos Ayres, Paraguay, and Patagonia. {Z. 0. G. M., xix, p. 130.) 



7. In connection with the proposed canal across the Isthmus of Panama 

 regular meteorological observations are being made at several stations. 

 The average temperature varies from 25° F. in winter to 85° P. in sum- 

 mer. Two large hospitals at Panama and Colon, respectively, and a 

 health resort at Taboga afford opportunity for regular observations on 

 climate and hygiene. [Nature, xxx, p. 580.) 



8. The Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg proposes a special com- 

 mittee to which shall be committed the general direction of the mag- 

 netic and meteorological works that have for some years been carried 

 on by various Government officials, especially the i)hysical observatory, 

 the geographical society, the bureau of agriculture, and the imperial 

 navy. 



9. (See sect. 73'.) 



10. H. F. Blanford, in his annual report on the administration of the 

 meteorological department of the Government of India for 1883, states 

 that work on the physics and temperature of the sun and on the 

 absorption of the earth's atmosphere has steadily continued. Special 

 reports have been made on the snowfall in India and the Himalayas, 

 which have led to a theory of the dry winds and droughts, and he urges 

 a special study in the future of the meteorology of this high mountain 

 region. Data have been collected together for charts of distribution of 

 temperature in Northern India, which will appear in tlie next or second 

 part of Vol. II of the India Meteorological Memoirs. A very large and 

 elaborate chart of the average annual rainfall in India has been pub- 

 lished with the co-operation of the surveyor-general's office. He is 

 also himself at work upon a number of interesting questions as to the 



