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THIS little book on elementary meteorology will be welcomed by the school-teacher, to whom it makes its primary appeal. Though the serious student, of the science may at first feel that it has no place on his shelves, yet, should he at some time be called upon to lecture to a non-scientific audience, he will find a perusal of its pages of no small value. The matter dealt with is mainly confined to features of the weather which can readily be observed by young people without special apparatus, and it is presumably for this reason that any reference to pressure and temperature conditions in the upper air is omitted. With, the foregoing rather notable exception the groundwork of meteorology is well covered. One of the chief features of the book is the series of exercises, of which more than 250 are given. These vary from some very simple questions to others which, the teacher would be well advised to think out carefully before putting to his class if he.wishes to. avoid finding himself in an awkward position. Many of these questions are calculated to arouse a most healthy interest in the minds of the pupils. One example must suffice. “What kind of weather is it that causes the inside walls of a building to stream with moisture?”
The Study of the Weather.
By E. H. Chapman. (The Cambridge Nature Study Series.) Pp. xii + 131. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1919.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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D., J. The Study of the Weather . Nature 104, 312 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104312a0
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