METEOROLOGY. ^5^ 



University of Berlin ; Dr. Glan. 



Agricultural School at Berlin ; Professor Borustein. 



Polytechnic School at Brunswick ; Dr. Pattenhauseu. 



Academy of Forestry at Eberswalde; Professor Miittrich. 



University at Freiburg, Bavaria; Dr. K. R. Koch. 



University at Gottingen ; Dr. H. Meyer. 



University at Kiel ; Dr. Karsten. 



University at Marburg ; Professor Fischer. 



The High School at Munich ; Dr. Lang and Professor Ebermayen. 



91. [The following American colleges include meteorology and clima- 

 tology in their general or special courses : 



Harvard University, Cambridge; W. M. Davis. 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston ; Prof. W. H. Niles\ 

 Yale College, New Haven ; Prof. E. Loomis. 



Corcoran School of Science, Washington ; Profs. C. Abbe and P^ 

 Waldo. 



Michigan University, Ann Arbor; Prof. M. W. Harrington. 

 Brown University, Providence ; Prof. W. Upton. 

 University of Iowa, Iowa City ; Prof. G. Hinrichs. 

 Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. ; Prof. P. E. Chase. 

 Colorado College, Colorado Springs ; Prof. F. H. Loud.] 



92. The very hopeful condition of the study of meteorology in Eng- 

 land is evidenced by the following subject announced for the Adams 

 prize to be adjudged in 1885 : Investigate the laws governing the in- 

 teraction of cyclones and anticyclones on the earth's surface. In order 

 to give precision to this the following suggestions are given to the ex- 

 aminers : An infinite plane has a surface density ^ (where g is gravity); 



on one side of it is air in equilibrium, the density of which must di* 

 minish according to the barometric law as we recede from the plane. 

 The system revolves as a rigid body, about an axis perpendicular to the 

 plane, with a constant angular velocity oa. 



If one or more vortices with a revolution either consentaneous with 

 OD (cyclones), or adverse thereto (anticyclones), be established in the air,, 

 investigate their motions. It may be well to consider the axes of the 

 vortices either straight or curved, and perpendicular or inclined to the 

 plane. If possible, pass to the case in which the vortices exist in the 

 atmosphere surrounding a rotating globe. {N'ature, xxix, p. 94.) 



93. Prof. W. J. Beal, of the State Agricultural College at Lansing, 

 Mich., in his address on the needs of agriculture before the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, says that if specific warn- 

 ings of the weather had been given during the harvest of 1882 most of 

 the wheat might have been safely housed and the farmers of Michigan 

 saved from a loss of a million dollars. {Nature, xxviir, p. C18.) 



94. H. F. Blanford gives an illustration of the general character of 

 long range weather predictions by quotations from the India Gazette, 



