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drawing in the Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, and later was assistant in 

 meteorology and physics under Professor Elias Loomis. He received an appoint- 

 ment in the Weather Bureau in Maj^, 1881, heing assigned to special duty on such 

 problems as the investigation of the psj^chrometer and the proper exposures of 

 thermometers, the study of thunderstorms, and other important questions. 

 At a later period Professor Hazen was assigned to duties of a broader aspect, 

 including weather forecasting and occasional editorial work on the Monthly 

 Weather Review. In addition to his official work in the Weather Bureau, Pro- 

 fessor Hazen was a frequent contributor to meteorological and other scientific 

 journals. He was one of the supporters of Science during the years 1882-1889 

 and of the American Meteorological Journal, 1884-1886. Among his larger pub- 

 lications are the " Reduction of Air Pressure to Sea Level " and the " Climate 

 of Chicago." 



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The Peary Arctic Club (Brooklyn, N. Y.) in recording its admiration for Mr 

 Peary's activity and persistence has pledged its unfaltering support to the re- 

 maining work of the expedition. 



Notwithstanding the greatly increased cost, both of materials and labor, 

 the shipbuilding outjiut of Great Britain in 1899 was the largest on record, 

 having reached the enormous total of 1,713,000 tons. Preliminary returns place 

 the year's output in Germany at 257,927 tons, in the United States at 178,636 

 tons, and in France (the only other country exceeding 50,000 tons) at 60,586 

 tons. 



A RECENT number of Science announces that an expedition organized by Baron 

 Toll for the exploration of the New Siberia Island.s and Saunikofl' Land, into 

 which no man has yet penetrated, will set out in June next from some Nor- 

 Avegian port. The party will pass the winter at a point on the banks of the 

 Lena, above the town of Yokutsk, and in the summer of 1901 will begin their 

 explorations toward the north. 



Mh E. H. Harriman, the patron of the expedition to Alaska wliich bears his 

 name, will iniblish the results of the expedition in a series of several volumes 

 prepared under the general editorial management of Ur C. Hart Merriani. The 

 first volume is to be a narrative of the expedition by Jolm Burroughs, with a 

 cliapter on glaciers by John Muir, and other chapters by well-known writers. 

 The scientific results, comprising several separate volumes, are being prepared 

 by the specialists who had charge of the different branches of work: 



Some months since the Frencii Government, according to the fje Tour Dn 

 Monde, instructed P. Froc, director of the meteorological ol^servatorj' near 

 Shanghai, to choose .some site in the French Indo-China colony and there estab- 

 lish a meteorological observatory. The director has chosen for the purpo.se a 

 slight elevation near Tonkin called Kahui, which is only 400 feet high. The 

 hill is near the sea, and tlie neighboring hills which encircle it form a sort of 



