Scottish geographical magazine . ence of salinity at the surface (see Plate V.). The question to be solved Avas simply this:—What degrees of salinitycharacterise the outflowing and the inflowing Avaters respectively 1 Certainpoints Avithin the limits respectively of the Skagerack and Kattegat arespecially adapted for observations of the movement of the surface Danish lightships at the Skaw,Trindelen,Lseso Rende, and Anholt holdthe first rank among such marine stations. The Director of the Meteoro-logical Institute at Copenhagen, Dr. A. Poulsen, very kindly sent me therecords of the

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Scottish geographical magazine . ence of salinity at the surface (see Plate V.). The question to be solved Avas simply this:—What degrees of salinitycharacterise the outflowing and the inflowing Avaters respectively 1 Certainpoints Avithin the limits respectively of the Skagerack and Kattegat arespecially adapted for observations of the movement of the surface Danish lightships at the Skaw,Trindelen,Lseso Rende, and Anholt holdthe first rank among such marine stations. The Director of the Meteoro-logical Institute at Copenhagen, Dr. A. Poulsen, very kindly sent me therecords of the salinity and temperature of the Avater and of the directionand velocity of the current at these stations for every day in February 1890. The lightship at the SkaAV lies alternately in the infloAving Avater ofthe Danish current, Avhich sets in from the North Sea along the coast ofJutland accom))anied by Avest and south-Avest Avinds, and in the Avesterlybranch of the Baltic Stream, Avliich is directed AvestAvard by southerly or.

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