88 MiscelliiiK mis Intrlligence. 



published in the different countries, aud eventual preparation of plan for more 

 uniformity. 



(6) Discussion of the utility on the meteorological telegrams from America pro- 

 posed by Mr. (General) Hazen, and of an eventual organization for their distribu- 

 tion in Kurope. 



(7) By what means can the timely receipt of meteorological telegrams be 

 assured ? 



(8) Should the reduction of barometer readings to gravity under 45° latitude be 

 generally introduced? 



(9) Is it desirable to count also in Meteorology the hours of the day from l h up 

 to 24 h in accordance with the resolutions of the international conference in Wash- 

 ington ? 



(10) Designation for a uniformly covered sky according to the form of the 

 clouds. 



(11) Definition of rain and snow days. 



(12) Should not the general adoption of a uniform height above the earth for 

 rain-gauges be recommended ? 



(13) What progress has been made lately in the more exact measurement of 

 snow ? 



(14) International Meteorological tables. 



(15) Modification of the rules for the administration of the International 

 Committee. 



In case you intend to submit to the Committee remarks on one 

 or the other of these questions we request that you will please 

 address them in good time to Mr. Robert H. Scott, (Meteorologi- 

 cal Office, 116 Victoria street, London). 



For the International Committee on Meteorology. 



(Signed) N. Wild, Pres., R. H. Scott, Sec. 



4. Digestion Experiments. Note to the Editors by H. P. 

 Aiimsby. — After the proof of my article on Digestion Experiments 

 in the May number of this Journal (p. 355, vol. xxix) had left 

 my hands, my attention was called to the fact that Dr. E. Lewis 

 Sturtevant. Director of the New York Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, had published a preliminary account of digestion experi- 

 ments made at that institution about a year previously, and about 

 a month before the first account of my own experiment was 

 printed. The opening sentences of my article should therefore 

 be modified in accordance with this fact. 



5. A Catalogue of Chemical Periodicals; by H. Caerington 

 Bolton, Ph.D., Prof. Chem. Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. — 

 This valuable catalogue by Professor Bolton is published in vol. iii 

 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, pages 159 

 to 216. The same number of the Annals contains a paper by Albeit 

 R. Leeds, on the literature of ozone and peroxide of hydrogen, 

 and by G. N. Lawrence on new species of birds of the Families 

 Tyramiidce, Cypselida? and Columbidre. 



6. When did Life Begin; a monograph by G. Hilton Sceib- 

 ner. 64 pp. Svo. New York, 1883. (Charles Scribner's Sons). — 

 Paradise Pound, by Wm. F. Waeeen, President of Boston Uni- 

 versity. Third edition, 496 pp. Svo. Boston, 1885. (Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Co.) — The first of these works aims to show that life, the 

 earliest and latest, began in the Arctic region. The latter sus- 

 tains the polar origin of man. Both are too far within the 

 realms of speculation for furth' r notice in this place. 



