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SCIENCE IK SHORT CHAPTERS. 



Those among our readers who are sufficiently interested in 

 this subject to devote a little time to it, may make a very in- 

 teresting weather scrap-book by cutting out the newspaper 

 chart for each day, pasting it in a suitable album, and append- 

 ing their own remarks on the weather at the date of publication 

 i.e., the day after the chart observations are made. Such an 

 album would be far more interesting than the postage stamp 

 and monogram albums that are so abundant. 



Parents who desire their children to acquire habits of sys- 

 tematic observation, and to cultivate an intelligent interest in 

 natural phenomena, will do well to supply such albums to their 

 sons or daughters, and to hand over to them the daily paper 

 for this purpose. 



The Meteorological Office supplies by post copies of Daily 

 Weather Reports to any subscriber who pays five shillings per 

 quarter in advance ; such subscriptions payable to Robert H. 

 Scott, Esq., Director Meteorological Office, 116 Victoria 

 Street, Westminster, S.W. 



These daily reports are printed on a large double sheet, on 

 one half of which are four charts, representing separately the 

 four records which are included in the one smaller newspaper 

 chart viz. those of the barometer, the thermometer, the rain- 

 gauge, and the anemometer. On the other half of the sheet is 

 a detailed separate tabular statement of the results of observa- 

 tions made at the following stations : 



Haparanda 



HernOsand 



Stockholm 



Wisby 



Christiansund 



Skudesnaes 



Wick 



Nairn 



Aberdeen 



Leith 



Shields 



York 



OxO (Christiansund) Scarborough 

 Skagen (The Skaw) Nottingham 



Fano 

 Cuxhaven 

 Snmburgh Head 

 Stornoway 

 Thurso 



Ardrosi-an 



Greencastle 



Donaghadee 



Kingstown 



Holyhead 



On Winds and Currents, from the Admiralty Physical Atlas. 



In the Northern Hemisphere the effect of the veering of the 

 wind on the barometer is according to the following law : 



With east, south-east, and south winds, the barometer falls. 



"With south-west winds, the barometer ceases to fall and be- 

 gins to rise. 



With west, north-west, and north winds, the barometer rises. 



