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IN reply to Sir Napier Shaw's kindly rejoinder in NATURE of February 17, p. 218, to my meditations on the progress of meteorology, I prefer to his simile of a boat-race that of boats striving to tow the not yet quite ship-shape bulk of meteorological research forward on its destined course. Although Sir Napier Shaw's was the best equipped of the boats, in which he was able to experiment with new modes of propulsion, I am sure he recognises that I was pulling with all my strength, if independently, at least in the same direction as himself. That I pulled in grim earnest with the result of long disablement accounts for my present position (which strikes me as more desolate than dignified) on the shelf, from which I see the now graceful lines of the new meteorology moving ahead with Sir Napier's new engines installed, and though almost out of hearing I listen to their beat in order to form an opinion as to how they act. I should be sorry indeed if anything I said were to retard or discourage any one on board that craft or cast a shadow on the laurels with which Sir Napier Shaw has been crowned by the scientific world to the joy and pride of every British meteorologist.
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MILL, H. Meteorological Nomenclature and Physical Measurements. Nature 111, 327 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111327b0
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