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have thrown more light on the former conditions of the circum- 
polar regions than perhaps all those of previous expeditions. 
Si Nares has supplied to the President the following résumé 
of some of the principal meteorological results, and their com- 
parison with those taken at Polaris bay in 1871-2: 
Mean Annual Mean annual Minimum 
pressure. temperature, temperature. 
f Degrees. Degrees. Degrees. 
Alert, Floeberg beach. ......... 29.869 —3.467 . r e 
Discovery, Discovery bay....... 29.887 — 3.932 —70.8 
Patas Da ieee P ess es 29.970 +4.196 —45.5 
Minimum temperature of earth 20 inches beneath surface—t3.0 degrees. 
was cut off. The still warmer temperature of Polaris bay is 
partly attributable to there being some uncovered water in the 
ev. Dr. Haughton, who hopes to present his results before the 
end of this session of the society. He has already arrived at the 
following general conclusions: 1, the tide which comes down 
Smith’s sound from the north is generically distinct from the 
Behring’s straits tide and from the Baffin’s bay tide; 2, it must, 
therefore, be the East Greenland Atlantic tide, and consequently 
Greenland is an island; 3, this new tide contains a sensible tertio- 
diurnal component of much interest. The result of temperature 
examination was thus stated: Making due allowance for una- - 
voidable sources of error, the temperatures of the sea observe 
= on the west shores of Smith’s sound prove the existence of a 
_ covery bay to so great an extent as that of the direct channel.— 
London Times. ` 
_ GeocrapnicaL News.—The Bulletin de la Société de Geographie 
for November contains: commentaries on some old maps of New 
