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IT is one of the peculiarities of foreign countries that they have professors of meteorology in their universities and departmental colleges, and the book before us reminds us of that fact. It is a professor's book. It gives a survey of the present state of knowledge of the subject in a form suitable for presentation to a class of intelligent and educated students. The arrangement of the text is systematic and methodical, not historical. It begins with the composition of the atmosphere, and then deals with the elements of climate, namely, temperature, moisture, cloud and precipitation. Then it passes on to consider pressure and its relation to wind and weather, and concludes with an account of the weather services of different countries. It is “gemeinverständlich” in the sense that the special application of mathematics to meteorology is not treated in detail. Instruments are referred to and described, but the details of the process of observation and instructions for observers are not considered.
Leitfaden der Wetterkunde. Gemeinverständlich bear-beitet.
Von Dr. R. Börnstein Professor an der Königl. landwirthschaftlichen Hochschule zu Berlin. Pp. viii + 181. (Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1901.)
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Leitfaden der Wetterkunde Gemeinverständlich bear-beitet . Nature 64, 180 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064180a0
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