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of gases,' and calling attention to refraction, 

 the importance of dust and of aqueous vapor 

 in coloring the sky, etc. 



' Air and Water Temperatures,' by W. F. 

 Cooper; a study of the effect of the water 

 temperatures of Lake Michigan. 



' The Climate of Madison, Wis.,' by James 

 L. Bartlett, observer. Weather Bureau ; a good 

 general account of the climate of an impor- 

 tant city, virith some reference to the weather 

 controls and weather indications. 



' Tornado Insurance,' by H. E. Simpson, 

 instructor in geology, Colby College; a paper 

 written as a thesis in the course in General 

 Climatology in Harvard University, and con- 

 taining a number of facts not previously com- 

 piled from the present point of view. 



' Meteorology in India,' containing notes 

 from Mr. Gilbert T. Walker, now in charge of 

 the Indian Meteorological Service. Of Mr. 

 Walker's seven monsoon forecasts, six have 

 been right, and one negative. 



' Meteorological Maps for School Use ' ; it 

 is a satisfaction to note that the Weather 

 Bureau now supplies blank outline maps of 

 the United States, suitable for laboratory 

 work, at $2.50 or $5 per thousand, the price 

 depending on the quality of paper used. 



' Asymmeti'ic Cyclones and Anticyclones in 

 Europe and America,' by Professor F. H. 

 Bigelow; the conclusions are somewhat start- 

 ling, to wit : 



There is no evidence of the superposition of cold- 

 eenter cyclones upon warm-center cyclones, as 

 expounded by Clayton or by Bjerknes and 

 Arrhenius, nor are there purely dynamic vortices 

 in a rapid stream as supposed by Hann, nor are 

 there cyclonic vortices caused by atmospheric is- 

 lands of high pressure obstructing a rapidly flow- 

 ing eastward drift as explained by Shaw, or by 

 Hildebrandsson in his report to the international 

 committee, 1905. 



' Atmospheric Electricity,' by G. C. Simp- 

 son, the newly appointed lecturer in meteorol- 

 ogy at the University of Manchester; deals 

 with the latest aspects of the subject, chiefly 

 in relation to meteorological problems. 



' A Possible Extension of the Period of 

 Weather Forecasts,' by Professor E. B. Gar- 

 Tiott; calls attention to the value of a study 



of the great permanent areas of low and high 

 pressure in making forecasts. 



' The Eelation of Forests to Rainfall,' by 

 the late W. F. Hubbard; deals with the dis- 

 tribution of rainfall and forests in California, 

 showing the close relation between the mean 

 annual rainfall and the forest cover. 



E. DeC. Ward. 



REPORT OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE 

 WISTAR INSTITUTE. 



The advisory board of the Wistar Institute 

 held its annual meeting in Philadelphia on 

 Tuesday, April 17. The director's report of 

 the year's work showed a decided step forward 

 in the research work of the institute. The or- 

 ganization of the neurological work with Dr. 

 Henry H. Donaldson as chief and Dr. George 

 L. Streeter and Dr. S. Hatai as associates was 

 reported. A statement was made of the 

 financial condition of the institute so that the 

 board might better consider the problems 

 which might be undertaken. Following this 

 report Professor Donaldson outlined the neuro- 

 logical work which he had under way and 

 stated that some twenty pieces of research work 

 were being actively pursued. Some of this 

 work is already in press, some in manuscript, 

 while a portion is being pursued in the labora- 

 tory of the University of Chicago and a por- 

 tion in the laboratory of the Wistar Institute. 

 Dr. Donaldson reported the action of the Im- 

 perial Academy of Science in Vienna in ac- 

 cepting the Wistar Institute as the central 

 institute for brain investigation in the United 

 States and appointing Drs. Donaldson, Mall 

 and Minot as delegates to the meeting of the 

 Central Committee for Inter-academic Brain 

 Eesearch to be held in Vienna this coming 

 May. The advisory board considered the fol- 

 lowing question of policy : " With the under- 

 standing that all plans may be modified more 

 or less from time to time to meet conditions 

 as they arise, the question is presented for 

 consideration : Shall we conduct the work of 

 the institute after the manner of the usual 

 research laboratories in the universities or shall 

 we endeavor to make the work of the institute 

 unique and try to do some of those things 



