150 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW. JANUARY, 19 1 1 RECENT PAPERS BEARING ON METEOROLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY. c'. FITZHUCH TALMAN, Librarian The subjoined titles have been selected from the con- tents of the periodicals and serials recently receivecl in the Library of the Weather Bureau. The titles selectetl are of papers or other cominunicntions bearing on me- teorology or cognate branches of science. This is not a complete index of t8he meteorological contents of all the journals from which it has been compiled; it shows only the articles that appear to the compiler likely to be of articular interest in connection with the work of the beather Bureau. Unsigned articles are indicated by a --. deronnzcticnl j o w n a l . London. 1 1 . 15. Ju?zucry, 1911. Dines, W. H. The prnctical application of meteorology to aeru- nautics. p. 4-14. (kriro scir n t ij'c j o urnal Craig, J. I. p. 5-12. Kasim, Mohammed. (h i some methods of predictiiiq the Nile Joirrnd of the Frrorklin i~istiticle. Philrtdelphia. 1 1 . 1;l. Fthritnry, Propertieh of dry. saturated and unsaturated air; with applicatioit to cooling-tower iind e ~i t p (~- rative surface condenser calrulations. p. 165-1iS. [With nu- merous formiik and a table. Did tlie tail of Hnlley's comet affect the exth'h A IC cn ri drin . 1 ' . 5 . Jan w r y , 191 I. Notes on the temperature a t .llesandrin. floods, taken from drab liibtorieb. 1'. 15-23. 1911 Gebhardt, George Frederick. I, Royal socidy of Ediiiburgh. Procer ings. Edinbiirgh. 1'. 30. 1910. Aitken, John. atmosphere'.' p. 529-550. Talman, Charles Fitzhugh. c Alniericrtii New I-orX.. 11. 104. 1911. The need of for invrstiqationa. p. 106. ( Feb. 4.) The farmer mid tlie Weather biirmii. The latest chapter in the btury of practical meteoroloqy in America in its appliratious to agriculture and horticulture. p. 17.5176, 187-189. (Feb. 1s. I Scitviti$c Americnn supplrntent. Neici I-orX.. 1 ). 71 Febritrtry 4. 1911. Some mountain winds and their Cosinos. Paris. 60 annk. 31 janvier 1911. hfeasuring your height in the air. p. 196 (Feb. 2.5 ) Talman, C[harles] Fitzhugh. names. p. SO. p. 58-59. Gradenwitz, Alfred. Avertisseur de montee et de descerite pour Langevin. P. La thCcirie i.lectromagni.tiqlue et le bleu du ciel. La diminution des jours de brouillard h Londres. hallonu. p. 78-79. [Description of the " kodophone."] Le radiuni. Paris. Towe 8 . Janilier 1911. p.-li-lS. [Libstritct.] Angot, Alfred. 10-14. (Jaii.-f6v.-mars. ) Maillet, Edmond. 16-19. (Jaii.-fCv.-nIars. ) Legendre, -. (.h i .-fPv.-mar? Sociitg niitinrologiqirr de Frnncr. P o r k . 58 c 1 ,1 n k . 191(1. La grande rrue de 1:t Seine de janvier 1910. Sur lit crrie (le la Seiiie en jaiivier 1910. 1'. 1). p. 3-3. Sur le cliniat de Tchentou (Set(-horieii 1. Socilli nitttorologiqtic dr. Frnnrc. Prtris. 5 s n n m k 1910-Continued. Jagot, A. Le kioqiie ni~t6on~lo~iqiie clu hlans. 1'. 44. (Jan.- r l'altitude des couches atnioPpli6riques oh se pro- l)lii.noni+nes crbpusciilnires. p. 92-97. ( Avril. ) itainh that the air htratum producing twilight is at Ititutlr, ant1 that the latter part of the phenomenon i8 due to reflected rather thaii direct illumination ] tinns iii6teorolhgiilues faiten z i I'ile Peterinann (L=65' 10' S. G=6G" 3' M'. P.) 1)Piwiil~re 1905-novembre 1Wg. p 9s-100. (Avril.) Eiffel, G., & Barb6, [Gabriel]. Rbaumb des observations ni6ti.o- rologiques i Plnuni~iiacli (( '8tes du Nord). p. 157-160. (Juin. 1 Colin, [E]. L'observntoire de Tanannrive. pli6nomhies mMoro- logiques propreh ?I hiadnqascnr. p. 208-222. (Juillet.) Goutereau, Ch. Sur les regles de hl. (iuilhert pour la prdvision des variations 1iaronii.t riq ues. p. 24 1-265. -i w i a l e n der Hydrogmphir. Berliu. 39. Jithrgciiig. H t j l . 1. 1911. Obolenskv. W. Hamburnische Reeistricrl,allon-.4ufstieae vom 8. f k .-mars. I ( Ao Qt-sept . d /i i i c i l e n de Mobiu 1910. Jonas, Gg. Peppler, Albert. Wegener, Alfred. Eiiie Metlii dr zur rase-hen .\iiswertung der Pilotbal- Teniperatur- r i n d Drurkgefalle in grossen Hohen. Nachtrag zii den " Studien iiber Luftwogen." Uber tlie ITrsnche der Zrrrhilder bei Sonnenuiitergangen. 11. 26-34. Die ~~iiitlverhaltiii~xe in1 nordatlantisclien Pas- wtqvLiet, ilarqeqtellt aiif Grund aer(iIoqi.ch~r Heobac.litungen. limarifstiege p. 1-12. p. 13-23. p 23,"5. Peppler, Albert. We ener, Alfred. Uber Temperaturinver~i~~nen. 55-65. .lilttwofrgiachr~ Z t i t s r h r (/f Brnuiischi(t~ig Brind 28. E ;t ~~n r 1911. Rykachev, M., jun. Rona, S. Dns I