NOTE.—Summary of weather and river and flood reports from all parts of the United States, with notes covering other countries and various topics of meteorology. Special articles are— Blue Ridge, southern, and Piedmont region, Northwest gales of; by B. C. Hawkins. Kite corps at Bayonne, N. J., Records by. Meteorology, List of recent papers on; by W. F. R. Phillips. Minnetonka, Lake, watershed, Hydrology of; by G. W. Cooley. Shooting stars, Hints to observers of; by William Harkness.