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treating of the observations and individual phenomena ; the second 

 part treats of the distribution of these phenomena over the earth's sur 

 iace. The work claims only to reproduce the best views of the students 

 of ^he present day, and therefore introduces but little which can bo 

 called individual. It is undoubtedly one of the best works at present 

 available in English, but contains some important defects that will, we 

 hope, be remedied in a treatise by Ferrel on Recent Advancement in 

 Meteorology, about to be published by the Army Signal Office for the 

 use of its observers. 



70. Hanu has published a second edition, in two thin volumes, of 

 Jelinek's Introduction to Meteorological Observations; he has added sev- 

 eral important tables and the description of new important instruments, 



71. Prof. P.O. Tait has published two treatises, on Heat and on Light, 

 respectively, which, as might be expected from this eminent author, 

 present the best view of the present condition of each subject; the ref- 

 erences to meteorological applications give these an especial interest 

 in this place. 



72. Excellent elementary books on physics have been published by 

 Profs. J. D. Everett, of Glasgow; J, Trowbridge, of Cambridge; W. A. 

 Anthony and C. F. Brackett, of Princeton. That of Professor Trow- 

 bridge is especially recommended by its thorough fidelity to experi- 

 mental instruction. The chapter on the atmosphere, barometer, &c., is 

 most admirable for the younger students of meteorology, the experi- 

 mental or laboratory side of which science is still susceptible of great 

 development, as is shown especially by the works of Vettin and Kiess- 

 ling, elsewhere more fully noted. 



73. A. Woeikof, of St. Petersburg, has published a treatise on the 

 climate of the earth, especially of Russia. Although in the Russian 

 language, and therefore evidently intended especially for the use of the 

 Russian universities, this work is of much wider interest because of the 

 activity of the author in many branches of statistical meteorology. 

 His work is entirely independent of that of Hann, but it has a very 

 similar range, and in respect to charts and illustrations is much richer. 

 There is, however, very little repetition in the two works. The original- 

 ity of Woeikof appears in every chapter. Undoubtjedly the introduction 

 of the work into the Russian universities will greatly stimulate the 

 education of meteorologists in that country and place it in advance of 

 any other nation except [)Ossibly Germany in the recognition of this 

 science as a branch of university study. {Z. 0. G.) 



73'. [We hope that the progress of meteorology, thus stimulated by the 

 great work of Woeikof, will not meet with the advej:'se fortune which 

 was indicated by a recent imperial decree of August 4. 1884, by virtue 

 of which the scientific works of Darwin, Agassiz, Huxley, Lubbock, 

 Adam Smith, Spencer, and many others have been proscribed; circu- 

 lating libraries will not deliver them to their subscribers, and book- 

 dealers will not sell them.1 



