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IT would be a curious inquiry which we commehd to those learned in statistics, to determine hdw many millions of observations have been made in the British Isles on dry and wet bulb thermometers, on barometers, and on other meteorological instruments. It would be a still more curious inquiry, seeing that the infinite industry displayed in these observations shows that the impdrtarice of the study of Meteorology is universally coticeded, to determine why it is that meteorologists, state-endowed and otherwise, have, as a rule, been content to grope their way in the dark, and not only not seek to find, but persistently refuse the clue, which, if followed, would brifig theih into the light of day. When some one some centuries hence—thank heavens, we have always that to look to in all branches of research—comes to consider the work done by meteorologists during the present century, he will, unless he be some patient German Dryasdust determined to examine all minutes of Boards of Visitors, ail Kew Committee Records, and the like, give up the task in the most utter despair, and On the whole perhaps this is the best thing that could happen.
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LOCKYER, J. The Meteorology of the Future . Nature 7, 98–101 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007098a0
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