Anleitung zur Anstellung meteorologischer Beobachtungen und Sammlung von Hilfstafeln

Abstract

A COMPARISON between the instructions of M. Carl Kreil, the late director of the Austrian Central Office for Meteorology and Terrestrial Magnetism, and those now issued by his successor, demonstrates steady and sound progress in practical meteorology. M. Kreil had to sow his seed on uncultivated soil, and was only partially supplied with the more modern implements of cultivation; Dr. Jelineck, on the contrary, has had before him the successive results of nearly a quarter of a century, and has profited by the vast experience gained from the correspondence carried on during that time between the central office and the numerous stations, distributed over the wide geographical area of the Austrian empire with its striking physical contrasts. No wonder then, that Dr. Jelineck's work, which the author modestly calls “a guide to meteorological observations, with particular reference to the stations in Austria and Hungary,” has developed, under his hands, into an excellent manual of practical meteorology, which will prove, in many respects, most valuable to the observers of every country. In the instructions of his predecessor such important subjects as the employment of the aneroid and marine barometers, and of the maximum and minimum thermometers, are not discussed at all, and little attention is paid to a rigid reduction of the observations.

Anleitung zur Anstellung meteorologischer Beobachtungen und Sammlung von Hilfstafeln.

Dr. Carl Jelineck. Royal 8vo. pp. 193, with 17 figures. (Vienna, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate, price 6s.)