158 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
cal forests and landscapes, and the coral and other scenery of the 
waters, gave him great pleasure, and the reader derives much of 
tive one in all respects, and not the least so for the portraiture it 
gives through its pages of the nee fyrmane ty 
2. Handbuch der Klimatologie ; r. Jotius Hawn, Direk- 
tor der met. Zentralanstalt, und / dab ane an der Univ. in Wien, 
etc. 764 pp. 8vo. Stu uttgart, 1883: (J. Engelhorn). — This 
volume is one of the series constitueng. the Bibliothek Geo- 
everal eminent collaborators. It is ¢ Salaabile work, giving in 
cto act form a large amount of Sitovmution in regard. to the cli- 
mates of the different parts of the earth, It opens with an intro- 
duction devoted to a ses epee of the various climatic elements ; 
at 
clouds and fog, winds, atmospheric pressure, evaporation, and 
composition of the air. The work proper is divided into two 
parts, the first containing a discussion of general ppmerteg 
considered under the two heads of the solar climate, or the cli- 
mate of the earth as Tabsesiltiied simply by the shane “of solar 
radiation and the character of the earth’s atmosphere. The sec- 
ond head is oye physical climate, or the actual terrestrial climate 
as influenced by the modifying causes of the varied character of 
the earth’s surface, of land and water with the accompanying cur- 
rents of air and sea, and the unequal altitudes of different parts 
of the earth above the sea surface. Under the second head the 
characteristics of land and sea climates on the one hand and of 
the mountain climate on the other, are discussed at length. This 
portion of the work, See sip about. one-sixth of the whole, 
fluence of ocean currents on the climate, of ip hres chains upon 
the precipitation of rain or snow are some the topies which 
e sed, 
special climatology or the description of the climate of the 
different parts of the earth, first for tropical regions, then for the 
temperate zones, and finally for polar regions. The considerable 
space, upwards s of 500 pages, given to this portion of the 8 ubject — 
allows the author to present the climatic peculiarities of the 
various regions in considerable — ha whether the reader is 
interested in the gold coast of Afri Alaska, or the Sandwich 
Islands, — will find here a good paenertiea of the results of past 
pbaervatio tio 
3. Pesrasce of a a veseh sea aie in collecting and 
mals ; .C. Maynarp. 112 pp. 
preserving Birds Man by J 
ee — with ifinstraaians Beak 1883. (S. E. Cassino & Co.)— 
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