232 Scientific Intelligence. 
every-day life, has been and will still be, the means of doing 
much good. The edi tor, Professor Church, has brought the book 
down to the present time, but throughout, as he states, with the 
davign to pene both the method and s style of the original work, 
ty the Air sa the Equator is not Hotter in January than 
in July? by A. WorrKor (St. bgp oe —In Nature, vol. xxi, 
p- 129,* "Mr. Croll ings his reasons why the equator is not much 
warmer in January than in July, notwithstanding the greater 
femacting effects of sapautenien fhe pe Athens s There i is another 
case which must also tend to lower the January and raise the July 
d 
start be reaches to a equ uator and somewhat beyond in Jan- 
uary but not that this tends to air the equator a lower tempera- 
rag winds Sonne ecu the south. If the equator is not every 
where warmer in January than in July, this is caused by the 
rainy season, which on the equator, and even a few degrees north 
of it, generally coincides with the a summer. Where the 
rains are not very heavy, as, for example, on - i . St. 
Thomas, West Africa, we have: January, 78°°3; July, 7 3 at 
Padang, Sumatra, where the rains are exceeding] y lio all ‘the 
* This Journal, February, 1880, p. 142, 
