Recent Proceedings of Societies. 



Royal meteorological society. London. 



Jan. 10.— The president, Mr. E. H. Scott, in his 

 address, said, that, as he had treated of land clima- 

 tology in his previous address, he proposed to deal 

 with marine climatology on the present occasion, and 

 to take up the subject at the point where he had left 

 it in his paper, ' Remarks on the present condition of 

 maritime meteorology,' printed in the society's Quar- 

 terly journal for 1876. He enumerated the various 

 investigations which had been announced to be in 

 progress at that date, and specified the several out- 

 comes of these inquiries which had seen the light 

 during the ten years. The "Meteorological charts 

 for the ocean district adjacent to the Cape of Good 

 Hope," published by the meteorological office in 1882, 

 was first noticed ; and the methods of 'weighting' 

 observations of wind, etc.. employed in that discus- 

 sion, were fully explained, as well as the mode of 

 representation of barometrical results. The " Charts 

 showing the surface temperature of the Atlantic, 

 Indian, and Pacific oceans," published in 1884, and 

 those of barometrical pressure, now in the engraver's 

 hands, were next noticed ; and it was announced 

 that the meteorological council had decided to under- 

 take the issue of monthly current charts for the entire 

 sea-surface. The wind charts published by the late 

 Lieutenant Brault of the French navy were next de- 

 scribed, with an expression of the profound regret 

 with which the intelligence of his premature death 

 in August last had been received by all meteorologists. 

 The wind charts and pressure tables issued by the 

 Meteorological institute of the Netherlands were then 

 explained, and also the publications of the Deutsche 

 seewarte at Hamburg, ■ The atlas of the Atlantic 

 Ocean,' etc. The series of ' Monthly charts for the 

 Atlantic and Pacific oceans,' issued by the hydro- 

 graphic office, Washington, were then described", and 

 the present series of ' Pilot charts ' issued by the same 

 office were explained. As for projected work in 1886, 

 Mr. Scott stated that the daily maps of Atlantic 

 weather for the year of the circumpolar expedi- 

 tions were now complete, and were being engraved, 

 — a process which must take several months. The 

 German office had undertaken the preparation of 

 daily weather maps for the same period for the South 

 Atlantic. The meteorological office had also taken 

 up the marine meteorology of the Red Sea. The 

 Dutch institute had announced its intention to pub- 

 lish an atlas for the Indian Ocean. In conclusion, 

 Mr. Scott stated that there still existed a lamentable 

 want of data for the Pacific Ocean, but that, thanks 

 to the energy of the Canadian government in opening 

 up their new Pacific railroad, it was to be hoped that 

 every year would bring a greater amount of traffic 

 to British ports on the Pacific coast, and therefore a 

 greater number of observations to the meteorological 

 office ; while from the existing trade to San Fran- 

 cisco a mass of materials was quickly accumulating 

 for certain routes, at least over the vast area of the 

 Pacific. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Engineers' club, St. Louis. 

 Jan. 6. — J. A. Seddon, Some considerations of the 

 relation of bed to variables in river hydraulics. 



Philosophical society, Washington. 



Jan. 30.— -Mr. George E. Curtis, Lieutenant Lock- 

 wood's expedition to farthest north ; Prof. O. T. 

 Mason, Two examples of similar inventions in areas 

 wide apart. 



Publications received at Editor's Office, Jan. 25-30. 



Bell, A. N. Climatology and mineral waters of the United 

 States. New York, Wood, 1885. 8+386^., illustr. _ 8°. _ 



Church, J. P. Statics and dynamics for engineering stu- 

 dents. New York, Wiley, 1886. 4+194 p., illustr. 8°. 



Froude, J. A. Oceana ; or, England and her colonies. New 

 York, Scribner, 1886. 12+396 p., illustr. 8°. S2.50. 



Hinrichs, G. Chronological list of scientific books and 

 papers. Iowa City, A . J. Herskire &> Co., pr., 1885. 16 p. 8°. 



Hous .-hold economy : a manual for schools. New York and 

 Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor &? Co., 1882. 8+145 p. 

 16 . 



Hudson, C. T. The rotifera ; or, wheel-animalcules. Part i. 

 London, Longmans, 1886. 40 p., [7] pi., illustr. 4 . 



Illinois state board of health. Report of proceedings of annu- 

 al meeting, Jan. 21-22, 1886. Springfield, State, 1886. 66 p. 12 . 



James, T. F. Cephalopoda of the Cincinnati group. Cin- 

 cinnati, Soc. nat. hist., 1886. [21] p., [1] pi. 8°. 



King, M. King's hand-book of Boston. 7th ed. Cambridge, 

 King, [1886.] 387 p., 5 pi., illustr., map. 12 . 



Porter, C. T. Mechanics and faith : a study of spiritual truth 

 in nature. New York, Putnam, 1886. 8+295 p. 12 . 81.50. 



Richards, E. H.. Mrs. Food materials and their adultera- 

 tions. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1886. 183 p. 12°. 



Swinton, W. Grammar-school geography, physical, political, 

 and commercial. New York and Chicago, Iz'ison, Blakeman, 

 Taylor & Co., 18F0. 337 p., illustr., maps. 4 . 



Introductory geography in readings and recitations. 



New York and Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor £r> Co., 1882. 

 4+116 p., illustr., maps. 8°. 



Williams, G. H. Peridotites of the ' Cortlandt series ' on the 

 Hudson River near Peekskill, N.Y. New Haven, Amer.journ. 

 sc., 1886. [16] p., illustr. 8°. 



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