The 3feteorology of the North Atlantic during August, 1873. By
Captain Henry Toynbee. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office.)—We have a volume of charts which display the observations, taken by nearly three hundred ships, of the gale which raged over a great part of the North Atlantic in August, 1873, and an accompanying volume of explanations and observations. Captain H. Toynbee is much to be thanked for the enterprise and energy which he has shown in carrying out a most laborious undertaking, the collection and comparison of a huge mass of information. There can be no doubt, to quote the words of the preface, that "more work of the same nature would throw light on the atmo- spherical conditions which influence and determine tho weather in the West of Europe." One of the most certain as well as most valuable conclusions from the whole is the great utility of "warnings."
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