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way leading to the road in either direction, is placed | electrically-driven 
at the north end of the building, and grouped around 
it are unpacking rooms, workshops, service lifts, 
macerating, sterilising, and stone and plaster rooms. 
Other rooms provided include those for photography, 
printing, and distilling, and a large number of store- 
rooms, also a kitchen and bicycle rooms for men and 
women. 
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: fans. Fireproof construction is 
being employed throughout, and it is intended that 
the cases and much of the furniture shall be of metal. 
There will thus be little inflammable material in the 
building, and any outbreak of fire could at once be 
isolated by iron doors placed at suitable intervals. 
It is intended only to build the southern half of this 
extensive pile in the first instance, and to add the re- 
mainder as space is required. 
The cost of this first instal- 
ment, including equipment, is 
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estimated at 230,0001., of 
which 60,0001. has __ been 
already received. Of the re- 
mainder half will be contri- 
buted by the Treasury, pro- 
vided the other half is raised 
from other sources, so that the 
council is faced by the problem 
of raising 85,o00l. in three or 
four years if the scheme is to 
be carried out successfully. 
REPORTS OF 
METEOROLOGICAL 
OBSERVATIONS. 
PROvAL OBSERVATORY 
OF CATANIA (1909 and 
1910).—We have received from 
Prof. A. Riccd the meteoro- 
logical results made at this 
observatory. From useful 
tables giving the means and 
extremes for nineteen years 
(1892-1910) we note that the 
mean annual temperature is 
637°; January, 498°; August, 
790°. An extreme reading of 
106° was reached’ once, in 
August, 1896, and the tem- 
perature only fell below freez- 
ing point twice, in February, 
1895 and 1go5. 
Moscow Meteorological Ob- 
4 servatory (1910).—The observa- 
tory is attached to the 
Imperial University; the ob- 
? servations were made under 
the direction of Privat-Docent 
Speransky, and are discussed 
in great detail by Prof. E. 
Leyst in the Bulletin of the 
Imperial Society of Natural- 
ists, No. 4, 1910. The means 
of air temperature (centigrade) 
were :—January —72°, July 
Ig1°, year 55° (normal 
i 39°); all months except 
August-October were above 
ear the normal; December was 
2. oe : 56° in excess. The absolute 
Fic. 2.—National Museum of Wales. Plan of:ground floor. extreme readings were = mini- 
Between the two pavilions for Welsh history and 
Welsh natural history, above described, will be a 
garden about 134 ft. square, in which the visitor will 
be able to rest and enjoy the fresh air in the intervals 
of inspecting the collections. Beneath the centre of 
this garden will be the aquarium. In the north-east 
angle of the site, just outside the museum quadrangle, 
is an open-air amphitheatre, intended primarily for the 
performance of Welsh national folk-songs and dances. 
The heating and ventilation will be upon a combined 
system of inlet and extract ventilation, controlled by 
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mum —32°5° January, maxi- 
mum 32°4° August, giving a yearly range of 64'9°. 
The absolute extremes in any year were — 37°0° and + 35'7°. 
Odessa Observatory (i910).—The meteorological 
observations contained in the Annuaire of the Uni- 
versity Observatory include those taken three times 
a day at Odessa, with daily and monthly means, and 
the principal results (rainfall and thunderstorms) at 
stations in south-east Russia. The mean tempera- 
ture values at Odessa are :—January 30:0° F.; July 
72:1°; year 51-6°; absolute maximum, 87’8° in June; 
| absolute minimum, —8"5° in January. 
