Maryland Weather Service

Abstract

THE Maryland State Weather Service was established in 1892, and its reports and climatic charts are favourably known to meteorologists. In 1896 a plan of closer cooperation between the National and State Weather Bureaux was proposed by Prof. W. L. Moore and adopted. This marked the commencement of a new and very important period in the history of the Service, and the present volume is the first published since the two organisations have been in close connection. The energies of the Service are now to be devoted chiefly to the publication of special reports on the climatology of the State, and if the volume before us is to be taken as an earnest of future ones, we may be pardoned a feeling of envy at the sumptuous way in which scientific work of this kind is presented to the public in America. We notice that it is proposed to publish in the near future a full account of the climatic features of Maryland, in which the physiography, meteorology, hydrography, medical climatology, agricultural soils, forestry, crop conditions and the fauna and flora of the State will be considered.

Maryland Weather Service.

Vol. i. Pp. 566. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1899.)