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that the hemispherical cup anemometer -was invented by Osier, 

 and improved by Dr. Robinson. Dove assumes that observations 

 in London, Liverpool, and Dublin, represent our climate fairly, 

 while the instances cited to prove the mildness of our climate fall 

 far below the real facts of the case, especially in the vegetable -world. 

 This paper is followed by some remarks on the climate of the Polar 

 regions, but the bulk of the work is taken up with Temperature 

 Tables. These are most valuable, containing, as they do, for about 

 1200 stations the yearly, monthly, and seasonal means, with the 

 extreme range of climate, as well as that from summer to winter. 

 To these tables are appended others of the non-periodic variations, 

 giving for more than 400 places the monthly means derived from 

 several years' observation, and the deviations from those means 

 observed in every year from 1856 to 1868. Remarks on the ave- 

 rage and absolute variability of temperature follow, and the volume 

 is concluded with a notice of some of the most remarkable exceptional 

 seasons which have been recorded, such as severe winters, e.g. 1838, 

 1850, both of which, though cold in Europe, were warm in America ; 

 famous vintages, e.g. the Comet Year, 1811, and various other 

 notabilia as regards climate. Many of these particulars have been 

 already described by Dove in his ' Five-day Cleans of Temperature,' 

 and in his papers read before the Berlin Academy ; but the thanks 

 of all meteorologists are due to him for having condensed such a 

 mass of information into a work of 300 pages. 



Professor Wild has followed up the publication of the ' Annates ' 

 for 1865 for the Russian stations by the announcement of the issue 

 of a new serial, ' Repertorium for Meteorologie.' Formerly, a period- 

 ical under this title was published by the Geographical Society, at 

 the suggestion of Kamtz, who was himself the author of most of 

 the papers in it. The new 'Repertorium' is to appear under the 

 auspices of the Academy, and to contain special discussions of the 

 observations which are given in full in the 'Annales,' as well as 

 independent papers on the Meteorology of Russia. The first part 

 has already come out, and we find in it the instructions for the 

 reorganization of the meteorological stations throughout Russia, 

 with the tables for the reduction of observations on the basis of 

 centigrade and metrical scales, which are to be substituted for the 

 former tables drawn up by Knpffer. There is also an ' Essay on 

 the Wind and Rain of Taurida and the Crimea,' by TV. Koeppen. 

 It is impossible to do more than allude to this paper, which is of the 

 greatest value, being- a discussion of a larg^e accumulation of trust- 

 worthy observations. 



It is curious that at the very time that Sir E. Sabine was dis- 

 cussing the clirnate of Barnaoul and Nertschinsk, as described in our 

 last number, Lieutenant Rikatchetf was investigating the same sub- 

 ject, and he has published his results in a paper " On the Diurnal 



