Exchange of observations were agreed upon, and a network for the protection of the China Coast was slowly established.
Among the telegraph companies Shanghai ly aesumed the expense of transmitting meteor ological messages, The service Which they assumed hag carried backward and forward an average Jof 200 telegrams a day. Such a contribution is worth more than a Denefit granted to a private concern; it Is a fine example of continual unselfishness in favour of a common cause.
After all, the history of Siccawei from end "to end is. filled with magnificent, manifestations of gen-ersity and of the productive good understanding of the community. On their tors of the Observatory of Siccawei strove to live up to the sympathetic expectation shown toward them and naturally their works multiplied along the line! claimed by public service, Investigation into Typhoons The principal typhoons at frst] had "their monorgraphies, being mostly based on extracts from log books furnished by captains of steamers. The continental depress-fons were not neglected; we will only mention the storms of 1882, 1885, 1892, 1896, 1901 and 1910, which were published in special pamphlets signed by Fathers De-chevrons, Chevalier and Froe. These still form @ background for many oftentimes dramatic events well known to the frequenters of the China Coast.
'More general compilations were! also the object of Father Free's reports to the Meteorological Society of Shanghai: for instance, "The atmosphere in the Far East,' Six cold months "and" months," accompanied maps iving the isobars and the principal direction of the wind for each month of the year. We must mention also the atlas of the tracks [of 620 typhoons, by the same Rev. Father Froe, a book which has been reprinted by the French Hydrogra~ phic Office and also by the British and American Meteorological Bureaux, a book which is nowadays found on board every big liner trading in our regions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.