Elementary Meteorology

Abstract

MR. SCOTT'S aim in this text-book of meteorology is to explain the conditions required for the successful prosecution of the science, and to show in some detail the more prominent of the results which have already been arrived at. The various instruments are figured and described, and the methods of observing detailed at length; and emphasis is laid on the necessity of securing accurate observations, and of paying attention, in making arrangements for observing, to the few simple and obvious principles which underlie the science. An account is then given of the geographical distribution of temperature, pressure, and the other phenomena of meteorology, particularly those which are usually comprised under the heads of climate and weather. The book is a highly successful one, and evinces a full and ready knowledge of the work which has been done by the meteorologists of this and other countries down to the present time, and we must not omit to add that there is an earnest endeavour manifested throughout to give the fullest credit to the first discoverers of the more important facts and principles.

Elememary Meteorology.

By R. H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., Secretary to the Meteorological Council. (London Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1883.)