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claimed. The general manager of the farm is Maj. H. E. Alvord. {Na- 

 ture, XXIX, p. 238.) 



46. Dr. 0. Lang, of Munich, describes the establishment of a new 

 station on the Wendelstein, where observations began on the 8th of 

 October, 1883. Up to this time the Bavarian weather bureau had no 

 station higher than the Hohenpeissenberg (994 meters), but has now 

 taken advantage of the fact that a house for tourists was about to be 

 established on the Wendelstein (altitude 1817.4 meters). This mount- 

 ain is 1,062 meters above the valley below it, and, therefore, compara- 

 tively isolated and steep. In regard to the instruments with which the 

 station is furnished, we notice that the thermometer shelters are placed 

 on the east and west sides of the building, because the north side is in- 

 convenient. The shelters are, however, one meter distance from the 

 respective walls. Within these shelters are maximum and minimum 

 thermometers and a thermograph manufactured by Steppacher. The 

 station also has a rotation psychrometer made by Eung, of Coi)enha- 

 gen. For the wind force no instrument is used, but estimates are given 

 on the 0-12 scale of Beaufort. It is hoped to establish two self- regis- 

 tering thermometers, one at the top the other at the bottom of the 

 mountain, and for this purpose probably those manufactured by Eich- 

 ard, of Paris, will be selected. {Z. 0. G. .1/., xviii, p. 458.) 



47. The Meteorological Office of the Marine Observatory, at San Fer- 

 nando, in January, 1884, began the issue of daily weather charts and 

 storm warnings for the Spaui.sh coast. 



48. The Italian Meteorological Office has established a mountain 

 station, at an altitude of 2,160 meters, upon Mount (]ymone. 



49. The Melbourne Observatory publishes a monthly record of meteor- 

 ology in Vi<'toria. Attention is called to the work being done in Aus- 

 tralia, and also to the necessity of more care in reference to certain ther- 

 mometer records. {Nature, xxx, p. 126.) 



50. The Meteorological Council of London, having decided to close 

 the primary self-recording observatories at Glasgow, Armagh, Stony- 

 hurst, and Falmouth, on account of the expense, the authorities at the 

 latter place have forwarded a remonstrance, strongly supported by 

 Prof. J. C. Adams, of Cambridge. These observatories have been in 

 operation since 1868, and if other nations follow the example of Eng- 

 land in this respect we shall never attain satisfactory knowledge of 

 local peculiarities in climate or meteorology. 



We are, however, glad to have to add that the foundation stone of 

 the new meteorological observatory at Falmouth was laid August 12, 

 1884 ; this was in consequence of a new agreement with the Meteorologi- 

 cal Office, which will continue its apparatus and work under more favor- 

 able auspices. {Nature, xxx, p. 240.) 



51. Frequent notices appear in Nature of the work done on the observ- 

 atory at Ben Nevis; among others v; 2 note that Mr. Omond, at the 

 gummit, ii^ couductiog a series of ubsevvi^tiows witU a hygrometer of 



