A readable book. Considerable space is given to instrumental meteorology. Contains chapters on the climate of the British Isles and on the relations of weather and disease in the British Isles. Especially adapted for the use of English readers. _Elementary Meteorology._ ROBERT H. SCOTT. International Scientific Series. London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885; Boston, A. A. Waterman & Co., 1889. 8vo, pp. 410. 6 shillings. The standard text-book in Great Britain. The author is secretary to the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society. Fairly complete, but now somewhat out of date in some portions. It is a useful book in a meteorological library, but does not treat the subject in a way very helpful to the teacher. _Meteorology._ THOMAS RUSSELL. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1895. 8vo, pp. 277. Brief and incomplete as a text-book of meteorology, but containing a very comprehensive account, fully illustrated, of rivers and floods in the United States, and their prediction. _Elementary Meteorology._ FRANK WALDO. New York, American Book Company, 1896. 8vo, pp. 373. 90 cents. A compact summary. Useful to teachers as a handy reference book. _Modern Meteorology._ FRANK WALDO. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893. 8vo, pp. 460. $1.25. Very complete account of meteorological apparatus and methods, and admirable summary of recent German studies of the thermodynamics and general motions of the atmosphere. _C._ INSTRUCTIONS IN THE USE OF INSTRUMENTS. _Instructions for Voluntary Observers._ 1899. 8vo, pp. 23. Brief instructions for taking and recording observations of temperature and precipitation with ordinary and maximum and minimum thermometers and with the rain gauge. _Barometers and the Measurement of Atmospheric Pressure._ C. F. MARVIN. 1894. 8vo, pp. 74. A pamphlet of information respecting the theory and construction of barometers in general, with summary of instructions for the care and use of the standard Weather Bureau instruments. _Instructions for Obtaining and Tabulating Records from Recording Instruments._ 1898. 8vo, pp. 31. Contains directions concerning the care and use of the Richard thermograph and barograph. NOTE.——These pamphlets are prepared under the direction of Professor Willis L. Moore, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, and are published, under authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, by the Weather Bureau. They will be found the best guides in making observations, the care of instruments, etc. _D._ JOURNALS, ETC. _Monthly Weather Review._ Prepared under the direction of Willis L. Moore, Chief of Weather Bureau, Professor Cleveland Abbe, Editor. United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C. 10 cents a copy.