740 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
‘ship navigation; soundings, deep-sea temperatures, dredgings, and current-obser- 
vations along the above-named coasts, in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf Stream, 
including its entrance into the Gulf, its course through the Carribbean and into 
and around the Sargasso Sea; the triangulation toward the western coast, and 
furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the 
Coast Pilot, magnetic map of Eastern North America, and other results of the 
work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians 
engaged in the work, three hundred thousand dollars. 
For continuation of the resurvey of the Delaware Bay and river, ten thousand 
dollars. 
Survey of the Pacific coasts, western division: For every purposé and ob- 
ject necessary for, and incident to, the continuation of the survey of the Pacific 
coasts of the United States, the Columbia and other rivers, to the head of either 
tidal influence or of ship-navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperatures, currents, 
and dredgings along and also in the Japan Stream, flowing off these coasts; the 
triangulation toward the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys. 
the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, the magnetic map of 
Western North America, and other results of the work, with the purchase of 
materials therefor, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, one 
hundred and eighty thousand dollars. 
SIGNAL SERVICE.—Observation and report of storms: For the expenses of 
~ the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of 
commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, pur- 
chase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for 
telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable ap- 
proach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of 
stations at life-saving stations and light-houses ; for instrument-shelters; for hire, 
furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports re- 
ceiving reports; for river reports; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in 
chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution; for orzge- 
nal studies, books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery; and for incidental 
expenses not otherwise provided for, three hundred and seventy-five thousand 
dollars. 
SIBERIAN COMMERCE. 
A document has been issued by the German Foreign Office describing the 
various attempts made during the past three years to reach the wouths of the 
Siberian river by way of the North Cape. In 1878, seven vessels undertook the 
voyage to the Artic Sea; two steamers arrived in Orbi, four in the Yenisei, and 
the seventh, a sailing vessel in the Lena, up which river it sailed to Jakustok, a 
distance of 2700 versts. The greater number of these'vessels returned to Europe 
in the same season with return freights. 
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