250 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
as indicated by the cloud aes (c) force. 7. Preceded or — by rain. 
8. Aspect of the clouds. Note if there be avy anperae S of two separate strata 
at different elevations. 9. Blech rical phenomena, should there be lightning, note 
the relation between the discharges and the fall of he hail—whetber the light- 
ning precede the hail, or vice versa. 10, Duration o i e storm at one spo 
11. Sound. Note if a peculiar noise precede the descent of the hail. 12. Con- 
en and size of the hailstones. 13. Weather fates oa after the storm 
Sehot?s Tables and Results of the Precipitation in Rain 
ae Snow in the United States and ae adjacent parts of North 
and South America, pablishe ed by the Smithsonian Institution. 
A new edition (secon 1d) of this very rile! nle memoir was issued 
in May last by the Smithsonian Institution under the direction 
of Mr. C. A. Schott. It makes now a quarto volume of 248 pages, 
with 10 plates. In the first edition the records were tahulated 
edition were constructed between April and June, 1880, and are 
made of the same size rade the temperature charts of the Smithson- 
ian Memoirs by Schott. The explanatory notes and deductions 
have been written anew, and various other changes have been 
introduce 
4. Boston City Water: report on a peculiar pipe nes of 
the Water in November, 1881 ; by Prof. Ira Remsen, with notes 
, A. Hyarr and W. G. Fartow.—The “ peculiar condition Ge 
one observed in the waters supplied to cities at certain pores 
in which the taste is a “cucumber taste” or a “ fish-oil ” taste. 
rof. Remsen found in his observations that such ie a con- 
tained more “albuminoid ammonia” than those not having the 
taste, and by this observation ascertained the particular ponds 
that sent to Boston the offensive waters. He afterward examined 
the mud of the bottom of Farm Pond, without positive results ; 
detected green masses of the size of pin-heads, which rose to the 
surface, and were recognized as plants of the Nostoe fa 
Prof. W. G. Farlow, but which did not have the smell; obtained 
from the screens, through which the water passes at the effluent 
of the gate-house of the pond, among dead leaves, ete. here 
4 or 5 oe in length, tooth most not over an inch, an 
reached the root of the matter. Prof. Farlow recognized the 
material as a fresh-water sponge, and Prof. Alpheus Hyatt as 
the common ain Spon. gilts Suviatilis. 
5. The Lalande Astron al Prize was awarded by the Acad- 
my of Sciences of Paris, a ts recent annual meeting, to Pro- 
fessor Swift, of Rochester, i bap 
. La Lumitre Ellectrique. —This excellent electrical journal, 
since the ther ago of the year, appears but once instead of twice 
weekly; at the same : ime the size of the numbers has been increased 
fr om 32 ie 48 colum 
Cosm seten Me eis —With the beginning of 1882 the well- 
‘resine review, edited by the Abbé Moigno, commences volume I 
of a third series 
