78 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
versity, St. Louis. 15 pp. 4to. Washington, 1881. (Washing- 
ton Observations for 1877. Appendix V.)—By means of a series 
of electric signals, exchanged ~~ ben Observatory at Wash- 
ington and the Morrison Observatory, at Glasgow, Mo., it has 
been determined that the t coaumits cir ciate of oh latter observatory is 
1" 3™ 58-926 west of the central dome of the United States Naval 
Observatory. 
V. MisceLLANgeous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army to 
the Secretary of War for the —_ 1881. 86 pp. 8vo. Washing- 
ton, 1881.—The Report of General Hazen is very satisfactory as 
showing that under his coutrol the United States Signal Service 
is not only to be kept up to the high standard which was main- 
tained under the late General Myers, but is to be made more effli- 
cient both in its practical bearings ‘and still more from a scien- 
tific point of view. The report details the numerous respects in 
which progress has been made, and in which it is promis ed in the 
future. These include various details of the service, such as the 
_ establishment of a permanent school of instruction at "Fort Myers, 
Va.; the raising of the standard of the personnel of the Signal 
Corps ; the sys tematization of the duties of the Service; the prep- 
aration of new instructions for observers, and many improve- 
ments in the publication of information for the benefit of the pub- 
lic in the various ways in which changes in the eee — 
affect their interests in the different parts of the country, as 1 
“river warnings,” “frost warnings” for the cotton States, special 
bulletins in regard to tornadoes, “ cold ries hot waves,’ and soon 
From a scientific pot of view, the most impor rtant advances 
which are being made in the Signal Dervics and those which 
promise most for the future, are in Faspliction with what is called 
the “Scientific and Stud Division,” and which has for its object 
the research and investigation into the laws of meteo rology: 
This division has been placed in charge of Professor Abbe, and 
under ey three gentlemen have been appointed upon examination 
—viz: Messrs. Winslow Upton, H. A. Hazen — Frank Waldo— 
who are to act as expert mathematicians - : ‘ 
n co ce oa with this division a number of ne Consulting Spe- 
cialists” have been selected to whom strictly scientific questions 
will be submitted—as those concerning the st pee barometer 
and -thermometer, pendulum apparatus and observations, atmos- 
pherie absorption of solar heat, ground ical fe ents and 
atmospheric electricity, chemic al analysis of air, collection and 
rey of atmospheric dust. In addition, a pre ittee of 
nett ase ore April 17, consisting of nin igen Sey scientific 
men to whom “ erg Chief Signal cer ma refer, as occasion 
arises, questions of meteoro logical science and its applications.’ 
Of s special scietitifia investigations undertaken in connection wit 
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