New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-13
international Simultaneous .ietcOroiag.
icaR Observations.

At the international convention OF mete.
| biologists, held in Vienna in 1873. General
| Meyer, representing the signal bureau of
the United States, suggested that as soon
as possible there be established bulletin
| OF international simultaneous meteorological
observations, with view. at no distant
day, Of exchanging, by cable and telegraph,
of the globe. The idea wac no. only an.
proved, but the most earnest support prom.
ised in order to make the bulletin perfect
success. project covering so much ground
and requiring correspondence with scien-
fists remote from civilization, could not
be carried into immediate effect. but
il is satisfactory to know that it
has been successfully inaugurated. and
that already fifteen daily bulletins. EN-.
bracing reports from 600 sections. have
been issued and transmitted to the observ.
ers. The observation is made daily at half.
past seven O'Clock, Washington time, and
the result promptly forwarded by mail to
the central meteorological Office of the
country where the observer is stationed.
The plan Of exchange is similar to that car.
ried out by the Smithsonian Institute. The
United States, for instance, has nearly one.
fourth of all the stations. contributing re-.
ports from $50 centres. Ia Alaska there
are two stations, one on the island of St.
Paul: Of the Aleutian group, and the other
on The continent. near the mouth Of the
Yucan river, near Fort st. Michael.
The operations extend from Maine
to California. from Minnesota to Flor
ida. Canada contributes from, ali
parts OF the Dominion, and has twenty
observers. who are handsomely contribut.
ing daily reports from all parts of the
Brltlsh' American territory. Mexico and
the Central American States have not vet
furnished reports, but they are expected SO
soon as the plan is understood. South
America will have altogether about twenty
stations, most of the number contributing
already. Through the London Office Great
Britain furnishes the reports Of her sc;en.
lists stationed throughout the kingdom. in
az the colonies and at all the nava! sta. |
tons, numbering over eighty valuable con.
trloutors. France, with thirty stations.
does the same, embracing her African and
East and West India possessions. Algiers
contributes separately. Denmark sends |
greeting from Iceland and Greenland,
rs well az from st. Thomas-iu al! |
five stations. German; he's thirty
home stations. and Russia from forty
points sends faithfully the result Of obserya.
tons at places Oh the continent, az wei, as |
from Siberia and Picking. Belgium, the /
Netherlands. Norway and Sweden each con.
, =, three or tour ports. Austria and |
o1o t"oht stdiions. italV twenty.
SPAN and Portugal one each. Turkey in |
ASIA iour and Turkey in Europe three. from
which the most interesting renorts are We. |
,elVed, especially from Gao. at the head of
The Persian guilt. and at the Termination of |
ne Persian cable. The French observer at
Shanghai sends the results of his daily oh.
'ervations. Good Hope. Uppernavik and
he southern part OF South America are en-.
'raced in the daily weather report now sen.
,o!Saa, preparatory to carrying out the
'rofessor Maury advocated his celebrated
wind and current theory. there has been
nothing so grand and universal attempted.
Washington Correspondent Ciacinno,; Cor.
aercial.