Meteorological Nomenclature and Physical Measurements

Abstract

WITH concern, not unmixed with amusement, I have read in the issue of NATURE for January 27 the desponding reports about the “Position of the Scientific Worker” on p. 132, and Dr. Mill's playful banter about “Progressive Meteorology” on pp. 107–109. The uninitiated can scarcely fail to regard the latter as deriding some recent meteorological work as regards the choice of appropriate names and units of measurement for the physical quantities involved; while I have good reason for regarding it as a serious effort to make plain some rough places in the path of future students of meteorology.