408 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
ITV. MIscELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
. Anderson School of Natural History.—The experience of 
ie past two years has shown that it will be impossible to 
carry on the School of Natural aed at Penikese on the same 
terms . formerly. At the close of the last session the Trustees 
had exhausted their resources. They propose to charge a fee of 
fifty “ollars for the season of 1875, and to carry on the school 
during the coming summer if a sufficient number of se 
are received in time to make the necessary arrangem Eve 
with the full tp agen of students, there will be a cndicat 
* deficit (as was the case last year) to be met by the friends of the 
school ; me pooaiois ye Penikese necessitating many expenses 
which need not be incurred in a more favored locality. Applica- 
tions should be sent at once to the aporienl - Cambridge, Mass. ; 
preference will given to teachers and to those who intend be- 
coming teachers. ALEXANDER sere z, Director. 
2. Vote on a supposed change in the Climate of Sootlands ~ 
A. Buenan.—Mr. Buchan concludes a paper in Nature 
or shorter periods, are so distributed over these long intervals as 
to give no indication that there ae been any tendency toward a 
steady increase or decrease in the temperature, or that any per- 
i ’ Scotland n 
he idea o 
occurred in the climate of Scotland either as regards summer heat 
or winter cold. It may be added that during the past seven 
years the Sees CeEE. of J "ye has been above its average res 
ively: 2°83," 105° 2:0,°.03,° PIS. 105:andl 1°8,° and that of Decsk 
ber, as gieiscs with its avera e +15 2" 4-9, —5°6,° —1°1,° 
—0" 8,° +3.4,° and —74;° results quite in the opposite direction 
of the popular pier oy belie f that the summers are colder 
and the winters milder than formerly.” 
. On the Periodicity of Thunder-storms (Ueber gesetamissige 
Schwankungen in der Hiufigkeit der Gewitter wdhrend langjah- 
riger Zeitrdume) ; by W. v. Byzoup. i es ezold, in his study of 
the periodicity of thunder. -storms, made use of a series of obser- 
vations that extended over a period of 105 3 pears (1764-1869) at one 
locality (Kremsmiinster, Bavaria) almost without a break, and of 
others less complete at other places. 
is conclusions he expresses as follows. In years when the 
temperature is high and the sun’s surface relatively free from 
spots, thunder-storms are abundant. Since, moreover, t e maxima 
of the sun-spots coincide with the greatest intensity of auroral 
displays, it follows that both groups of phenomena, thunder-storms 
