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The Weather and Climate of Chicago. {Bulletins of the Geo- 

 graphic Society of Chicago) By Henry J. Cox, Professor of 

 Meteorology, United States Weather Bureau, and John H. 

 Armington, Local Forecaster, United States Weather Bureau. 



xxvi-l-376 pages, 8vo, cloth; $3.00, postage extra (weight 3 lbs. 1 oz.) 



Of general interest because of its character and authority, 

 this book is naturally of peculiar interest to residents of Chicago 

 and the Middle West. Its importance is indicated by the 

 fact that it is issued under the auspices of the Geographic 

 Society of Chicago, and has been prepared by two of the best 

 known weather experts in the country. It includes discussions 

 of a great variety of subjects, such as temperature, precipitation, 

 atmospheric moisture, cloudiness and sunshine, wind direction 

 and velocity, barometric pressure, and storm tracks; and among 

 the interesting appendixes to the book are one on the weather of 

 holidays and another containing journal entries relative to the 



great Chicago Fire of 187 1. 



The volume contains also a remarkable series of tables with 

 reference to temperature, precipitation, atmospheric moisture, 

 and atmospheric pressure— one hundred and forty-seven in all, 

 with more than one hundred figures and plates. 



Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835. By Milo Milton 



Quaife, Superintendent of the Wisconsin State Historical 



Society. 



viii-f-480 pages, 8vo, cloth; $4.00, postage extra (weight 2 lbs. 14 oz.) 



This book recounts, in a manner at once scholarly and 

 dramatic, the early history of Chicago. Important as this 

 subject is, it is not treated solely for its own sake. The author s 

 larger purpose has been to trace the evolution of the frontier 

 from savagery to civilization. From the point of view of Chicago 

 and the Northwest alone the work is local in character although 

 the locality concerned embraces five great states of the L mon ; 

 in the larger sense its interest is as broad as America, for every 

 foot of America has been at some time on the frontier of 

 civilization. It is believed that this book will take rank as the 

 standard history of Chicago in the early days. 



The Nation. In this monograph [on the historyof Fort Dearborn] we have one 

 of the most careful studies in Western history that has ever been made. 



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