January 22, 1886.] 



SCIENCE. 



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at Philadelphia read (reduced to sea-level) 28.69 ; 

 it was 30.81 in the anticy clonic centre near Lake 

 Winnipeg, a difference of over two inches in only 



Fig. 3. 



1,400 miles. This is illustrated in fig. 3, which 

 gives the isobars for every even tenth of an inch ; 

 it shows also the area (dotted) over which snow 

 was falling at this time ; and the storm-track is 

 traced by a heavy broken line, with a cross and a 

 date to mark the place of the centre at seven 

 o'clock in the morning while it lay within our 

 territory. The numerous wrecks along our coast 

 attest the violence of the winds at this time. 

 When the monthly weather review for January 

 comes out, we shall hope to find a detailed ac- 

 count of this storm, especially from those stations 

 along the coast that lay close on the path of its 

 centre. 



Fig. 4, for the same date, is designed to illus- 

 trate the extraordinarily low temperatures brought 

 by the cold wave m the rear of the cyclone. The 



mean temperatures for January are taken from 

 Lieutenant Greely's monograph (1881), and drawn 

 in broken lines for every ten degrees. By com- 

 paring these with the six temperature maps above, 

 the amount of departure from the normal may be 

 estimated. The departure for Jan. 9 is given by 

 two shaded areas, showing a depression of thirty 

 and forty degrees respectively; this depression 

 being calculated from the mean January tempera- 

 ture at 7 a.m., as given in the chief signal officer's 



report for 1884. The temperatures reached in the 

 southern states on this and the following days are 

 in all cases close to the recorded minimum of 

 earlier years, and in many cases are lower than 

 any thing known in the signal-service stations 

 there. Altogether, the storm and the cold wave 

 are perfect examples of their unpleasant kind. 



W. M. D. 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHEOLOGY. 



The fourth number of the American journal of 

 archeology, which has just appeared in Baltimore, 

 completes the first volume, and fully sustains the 

 high expectations which were entertained of its 

 management. Nearly five hundred pages, illus- 

 trated by eleven plates and sixteen figures, have 

 been given to the subscribers ; but the quality of 

 the articles is more noteworthy than the quantity. 

 No other archeological journal of any country 

 affords so comprehensive a view of the progress 

 of investigation and discussion. All important 

 reviews and monographs and books are noticed 

 by competent readers and critics, whose names 

 are appended as authority for the statements 

 which are presented. The proceedings of soci- 

 eties are also recorded. Although chiefly con- 

 cerned with the archeology of civilized nations, 

 prehistoric remains are not neglected ; but the 

 effort is made to represent in one journal all the 

 varied movements of the science. The managing- 

 editor, A. L. Frothingham, jun., Ph.D., by his 

 complete familiarity with the French, Italian, and 

 German languages, and by his long residence in 

 Rome, has become acquainted with the leading 

 authorities, and has been able to secure their en- 

 couragement, and to a considerable extent their 

 co-operation in his undertaking. A list of those 

 Europeans who have already made, or who have 

 promised at an early day to make, contributions 

 to the American journal of archeology, includes 

 the names of such well-known persons as Piper of 

 Berlin ; Reber of Munich ; Michaelis of Strassburg ; 

 Schreiber of Leipzig ; Ramsay of Oxford ; Babelon, 

 Reinach, Mtintz, and de Marsy, of Paris ; de Rossi, 

 Marucchi, and Helbig, of Rome ; Hildebrand of 

 Stockholm ; Lambros of Athens ; and many more. 

 Many of our countrymen are also enlisted in the 

 enterprise. 



With such an array of names, a good series of 

 papers would of course be expected, and the re- 

 sult has been satisfactory. In the latest number 

 the most noteworthy article is, perhaps, that of 

 Professor Merriam, on that remarkable code re- 

 cently discovered at Gortynia in Crete. So long- 

 ago as 1857, an inscribed stone, built into the 

 walls of a mill on the banks of the Cretan river 



Fig. 4. 



