84 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW. FEBRUARY, 1915 SECTION VI. -BIBLIO GRAPHY. RECENT ADDITIONS TO TEE WEATHER BUREAU LIBRARY. C. FITZHUQH TALM-~N, Profewor i n charge of Library. The following have been selected from 8mon the titles likely to be useful to Weather Bureau oficittls in their meteorological work and studies: of books recently received ns representing t f lose most Anfossi, G[iovanni La pioggia ne i a regione Lonibarda. Firenze. 1914. 71-294 p. 2 pl. 244 cm. (Dainelli, Giotto. Material; pcr la climatologia d’Italia. IV:) Qualche dato iutorno all’cffetto utile delle precipitazioni per l’alimenkuione dri corsi tl’nrqun. Firenze. 1314. 4 p. 24 cm. (Estratto d:d1:1 Ril istn ~i l ~~g r ~~h c a italiana. anno 21, fasc. 3, 1914.) Bouches-du-Rh8ne. Commission de m8tiorologie. Bulletin annuel. 1913, 33p‘ ciiinee. Marseille. 1914. sii, 74, xxxii p. plate. 2s cni. Cambridge. University. Solar physics observatory. E’lrst annual report of the Director, 1913 April 1-1914 March 31. [Cambridge. 1914.1 16 p. 2s cm. Ekholm, Nils. Om naturens vhrmehuah8llning. Uppsala. 1914. 399335 p. Sll, cm. (Rcyrint: 6. Vctens~:ipsak~~demic~ irsbok, e. 12, Fifth annual report including rccorils, 1 August, 191331 Dcrcniber, 1913, by J. B. Woodwurth. C’nmbridge, hlws. 1914. 55-ii p. 241 cm. (Bulletin of the Muscum of compar~tive zoology a t Harvard college, v. 56, no. 3.) Theoretische iind experimentelle BeitAge zur AufklSrung c1c.s drcifachen Bilcles eincr l,uftnlJi~~eluiig, in1 iliaiMuss an phi ,to- n hische Aufnahnirn und B c ‘~~I J ~I ~I ~~u I ~~c I I einer stiindigen fu8,spiegelung bei Blankmeae. Hamburg. 1914. 55 1,. plate. 254 cm. (Abhnncllunfien niia dem Ciebietr der Nntur- wiissenschaftcn, 20. Rand, 2. Heft.) Surface formntinns and :Igricultor.il ~.~n c l i t i i i ~~~ of nnrtliwc.stc.rn Minnesota. With a clialitt-r on cliniatic conditions of hlinne- sota, by I T . (+. Purssell. hhneqiolis. 191.5. vi, 7S p. pkites. 223 cm. (hlinncsots geological survey. Sullctin nu. 12.) 3. ncuhearb. Aufl. Leipaig & Berlin. 1914. vi, 1-10 y. 3Ul, cm. plate. 1914.) Harvard seismographic station. Hillers, Wilhelm. Leverett, Frank. J,6hnis, F[elix]. [Mellish, Henry.] Landwirtschnftliche PhyYik uncl Kitterunpkunde. The weather of 1914, at Hoclsock Priory, b’orksop. S p. tab. 22 cm. Lea variations pCriodiquea clrs ghciers den Alpcs Suisses, 34me npport, 1913. Berne. 1914. “35-253 p. (Extrait de 1’An- nume du S. A. C., 4 P e nnu6e.) Wetterkunclc fiir den Wns~crsport. Berlin. 1914. 109 p. 21 1. 24 cm. (Yacht-Riblii~thck, herniing. v011 der Rerlaktibn zer Zeitschrift “Uic Yacht.” Rand 8.) Mysore. Meteorological department. Report on rainfall registmtlon, 1913. Bxngalorc. 1914. svii, 49 p. plates. m i JY. 31 cin. Radcliffe observatory, Ogord. Results of meteorological obwrvatione, 1914, vol. ti, psrt 4. Oxford, etc. 1915. 6140 1). 35A cm. Muret, E., & Mercanton, P[aul] L[ouis]. Mylius, E. &OV, G. Speerschneider, C. J. ,H. Osnov meteorologii. [Elements of meteorolo y.] Tret’e izdank. Moslva. 1913. 131 p. plates. 24 em. fRuaaiitn text.] Om Isforholdene 1 1)anslie Farvande i d i r e og nyere Tid. Aarene 690-1860. [The state of the ice in Danish waters i n former and resent times.] Pjgjbenhavn. 1915. 141 p. plate. 25 cm. Damh text, with English summary.] (Danske meteorologiske F nstitut. Meddelelser Nr. 3.) &eaults of meteorological, niagnetical, and seismological observa- tions, 1914. Blackburn. 1915. xxi, 52 p. plate. 164 cm. Ston hurst college observatory. Surinam. Departement van den Landbouw. Meteorologische wmnemingen, gedaan op de mcteorologische stntions in de kolonien Suriname en Cimrasm, 1913. Amsterdam. [1914.] unp. 34 cm. An nccount of the physical geography of Iceland. Copenhagen, c k . 3 p.l., 1‘31-343 p. 26 cm. (The Botany of Iceland, ed. by L. 6. Rosenvinge, and Eug. Warming. Part I, [no.] 2.) IClimate. D. 266-391.1 Thoroddsen, Th[orvald]. Islands Kl& i i)ldt&n. (hi Geogafisk Tidskrift, Kgjbenhavn, 1914, 22. Bind, Hefte 6. 1). 304-216.) Union of South Africa. Senate. Report from the Sclect committcc on droughts, rainfall and soil erosion. [1914.] xii, 55, xxviii p. 2 maps. 334 cm. (4th sms-lst parliament. Senate S. C. 2-1914.) [Appendis A: Stntcmsnt showing the rainfsll nt various stations i n the Union, for which fairly long rwortls art: availalJle. With maps giving avc~tge annual minhill ant1 s ~~~o m ~l distribotion of rninf:dI.] Zi-ka-wei. Observatoire magdtique, mMorologique et sismolo ique. Bulletin dcs obscrvationn ...- Tome 30, :inilk 1910. hICt6oru ! ogie. Chmg-hni. 1914. xxsiii, 153 11. plates. 31 cm. Bulletin des observations. Tome 3ti, annee 1910. Sismologie. Chang-hai. 1914. 1Y p. 31 cm. RECENT PAPERS BEARING ON METEOROLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY. C’. PITZHUGH TALMAN, Profesror i n clxirge of LiLmry . The. subjoined titles have been selected from the con- tenbs of blie eriodicds and serials recently received in are of mpers imtl other c.oiiiniunicilt,ions bearing on not n comp1ct.o indcs of the met.eorologicd contents of all the journals frmi w1rhic.h it! 1rha.s bcen compiled. It shows only thc :wt.icles t,li:i.t, npprar to tho compiler like1 to be of p:i.rtic.ular interest in connection with the wor of t,he Weather Bureau. the library n P the Wenthcr Bureilu. The titles selected meteoro 1 ogy and cogiiate bmnc.hes of sciencc. This is 1 Anieriiwn gcograpliicd societ!l. Bullrtin. Nt-i(B I-irk. ‘v. 47. March, Huntington, Ellsworth. Terrestrial tenipernt.ure and solar changes. 1915. p. 184-1S9. - dinericaii sorit-ty nf c i i d cngi)it*crs. Procwdings. X i u York. v. 41. C’omputing run-uff from rainfall and nther dstro~ioiiiwal society nf the PncQic. Sa,& Frnnciwo. ‘11. 27. February, Selga, M. Thc Ebrii observatory, Tiirto~ix, Spain. p. 81-27. Gcogrripliicnl j o t m i d . Lo,iclnii. P. 45. Ft-brimry. 191.5. Davison, Charles. The earthquake i n central Italy on January Itidioii nit-trorologicwl dcpartnimt. Mfnioirs. f‘olriittn. t i . 19. 1914. Harwood, W. A. A discussion uf the meningrophic cibscrvatiiins recarded a t Port B1;tir frirni September, lW4, tri August., 1904. p. 14l-lS9. Harwood, W. A. A discussion id the anemigraphic ~rbaervations recorded a t Dhubri frmi November, 1SS9, to May, 1896. p. 191- 214. Ward, Robert DeC[ourcy]. The Eunipean winter and the war. Braak, C[ornelius]. A remarkable dry fog ill the East Indian Whitmell, C. T. The green flash. p. 35-36. (Mar. 11.) Davison, Charles. The Avezzann eirthquake of January 13.‘ Xarrh. 191.5. Meyer, Adolph F. 11h@c~l d a h . 1). 549-ti48. 191.5. 13. 11. 145-146. Joicrml of qeoyrtrpliy. ilfudisoi). 1 ’ . 1.3. March, 1915. ivnturc. Lotidnu. I -. S4. Fcbriiary 25, 1915. archipelago. p. G99. Nntzire. Loiidoii. 11. 95. 1915. p. 76-77. (Mar. 16.) 11. 20s-21.5.