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SCIENCE. 



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heated cone, and the water rushed down hill, ments of these admirable charts of winds are 

 gathering loose earth and rocks as it went. available for school use. 



JAMES GLAISHER. 



James Glaishee, who died on February 7, 

 last, although he contributed in many ways 

 to the advancement of meteorology, will al- 

 ways be remembered chiefly for his famous 

 baUoon ascent on September 5, 1862, with 

 Coxwell, when these two intrepid aeronauts 

 reached a height of about 37,000 feet above 

 sea level, and established a record for high 

 ascents. With the recent rapid development 

 of balloon meteorology, attention has natu- 

 rally very frequently been directed to this 

 famous balloon voyage, and Glaisher's account 

 of it, published in his ' Travels in the Air,' 

 has doubtless been more generally read within 

 a few years than it was when the book first 

 appeared. Glaisher made many scientific 

 balloon ascents during the early '60's, the 

 results of which were communicated to the 

 British Association, and for more than fifty 

 years he contributed reports on the meteor- 

 ology of England to the periodical returns of 

 the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and 

 Marriages for England and Wales. He also 

 published some hygrometrical and temperature 

 tables; a report on the meteorology of India, 

 and another on the meteorology of Palestine, 

 and was one of the founders of the Eoyal 

 Meteorological Society. 



ATLAS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



There has recently been published a second 

 edition of the valuable ' Atlas of the Atlantic 

 Ocean,' issued by the Deutsche Seewarte in 

 Hamburg. This atlas, with the accompanying 

 ' Segelhandbuch,' embodies the latest and most 

 complete information concerning the meteor- 

 ology of this ocean. Atlases and sailing di- 

 rections have also been published for the 

 Indian and Pacific Oceans. Of the charts 

 in these atlases perhaps the most striking are 

 those showing the generalized winds. These 

 charts bring out, in the most emphatic man- 

 ner, the great wind and calm belts of the 

 doldrums, trades, horse latitudes and prevail- 

 ing westerlies. It is a pity that no enlarge- 



NOTES. 



It is very significant of the advance that 

 has been made within a few years in balloon 

 and kite meteorology, that the results of the 

 meteorological observations made in the free 

 air during ascents from the Prussian aero- 

 nautical observatory have, since last Novem- 

 ber, been published daily in three Berlin 

 newspapers. E. DeC. Ward. 



GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 CHICAGO. 



The University of Chicago has established 

 a department of geography, and Professor 

 RoUin D. Salisbury, of the department of 

 geology, has been placed at its head. The 

 arrangement between the departments of geol- 

 ogy and geography is such that Professor 

 Salisbury retains his connection with the 

 former, as heretofore, at the same time that 

 he assumes the headship of the latter. The 

 close connection of the two departments ap- 

 pears from the fact that Professor Salisbury 

 will also act as head of the department of 

 geology when Professor Chamberlain is not 

 in residence, and Professor Chamberlin will 

 act as head of the department of geography 

 in Professor Salisbury's absence. 



The department of geology has heretofore 

 offered courses, both elementary and advanced, 

 in physical geography, and elementary courses 

 in meteorology. Other courses of a geo- 

 graphic character have been offered by other 

 departments, notably geographic botany by 

 the department of botany, zoogeography by 

 the department of zoology, and commercial 

 geography by the department of political 

 economy. These courses will continue to be 

 given, as heretofore, by these several depart- 

 ments, except that meteorology will be under 

 the auspices of the new department. The 

 new department will not duplicate the geo- 

 graphic courses already given, but will, at 

 the outset, provide courses which supplement 

 those already established. The immediate 

 aim of the new department will be to occupy 

 the ground intermediate between geology and 



