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appropriation at the disposal of Professor Kinu^ston, Siipi' 

 enf of the Meteorolo^if-al ofli.e of the J)ominion, it -.ou 

 that the eontributions to meteorology 1>V that State are 

 creditable. Prof. Kino-ston states that feuular weather 

 are teletiraphed from fifteen Canadian stations to the \ 



dntond- 

 d seem 

 highly 



Burean at Washington, in oxehange for which a lew reports arc 

 sent irom the United States by telegraph, and a large number by 

 mail. Tlie only station in Canada at pixsent furnished with self- 

 reeording a[)pnratns is tliat at St. Johns College, at Winnipeg, 

 where, by priyate inunificenee, an anemograph has been set in 

 operation' by the Bishop of Ihiperts Laud. With reference to 

 .Montreal, which raidis as one of the chief stations, it is stated that 



mountains, is singnlarly ill adapted for anemometric obseryations, 

 on which account'an aru'mometer was, in August* IST-t, erected on 

 a pole on the summit of tlie moinitain, and connected by telegraph 



feet lower down on the'inountai-.i. There art- in Canada thirty-fiye 



Toronto. It would appear that these stornt warnings do not give 

 so much satisiaction in the Ca!ia<lian ports as do the correspond- 

 ing ones ill the Tnited Stntes; this deficiency is explained by 



!ill countries," to' the eftect that all IJ -lit -house" keeper^ amr all 

 other government officials at iiihuid phu-e^ as ^\ell as on the coast, 



gale'thMt''' I'.av 7>c(mu;\/ their VK'iriiborVu)'>d. "'"Anumg' the rppen- 



obseiVatorv'and hou^ weii linivhc./oaVly hi May. an.'f the instru- 

 ment, etc.; were removed thither. Tlii> obsoV%atory contains 

 rooms for the equatorial, the transit and computing room and 

 ])hotographic. and is directly adjacent to the dwelling of the 

 Director, Commander E. I). 'Asho. The principal work of the 

 erpiatorial consists in taking ])hott)graphs of the sun's surface from 



point of view, is to irive the correct time to the shipph.g. The 

 time bull Is HOW dropped by ch ctricity, and the m-tliod has been 



2. Mf St. A7/./.s>. -The recent meas,uvmei.tw>fMr. W. II. Dall, 

 Acting Assistant V.^. Coast Survey, of the height of .Alt. St. Elias, 

 make it 19,464 feet. The memoir, — a part of the Coast Survey 



