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THIS book is No. 25 of the series “Wissenschaft und Bildung,” edited by Dr. Paul Herre. It is published to meet the wish for information respecting the principles of weather prediction consequent upon the establishment of the public weather service in the German Empire (June, 1906). The Deutsche See-warte, Hamburg, has issued an excellent daily weather report since February, 1876, for the whole of Germany, but the new system divides the Empire into fifteen forecast districts. The first section of Dr. Kassner's work deals with the historical development of weather prediction, and contains a concise summary of Dr. Hellmann's valuable researches into this subject, from the Babylonian era, some 4000 years B.C. This is a new departure from the usual course, and will be very useful for reference. Part ii. deals with the bases of modern weather prediction, with the preparation of weather charts, with areas of high and low barometric pressure, &c. This portion of the work, although not new, will be found most useful to students. The author has consulted all available sources of information, and presents a lucid exposition of the present state of the science; various popular notions, such as the supposed direct influence of the Gulf Stream and of the existence of icebergs on our weather (also lunar influence, part i.), are satisfactorily dealt with. Part iii. deals with the importance of weather in public and private life, and contains much that is not usually found in similar works.
Das Wetter und seine Bedeutung für das praktische Leben.
By Prof. Carl Kassner. Pp. vi + 148; illustrated. (Leipzig: Quelle and Meyer, 1908.)
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Das Wetter und seine Bedeutung für das praktische Leben . Nature 78, 412 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078412b0
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