Abstract
REGULAR meteorological observations are of comparatively recent origin, but mankind has always been interested in the weather, and numerous meteorological references are scattered through the literature of all countries from the earliest times. The importance of collecting these records has been recognised by the International Meteorological Committee, and in recent years several eminent meteorologists have occupied themselves with the task, especially the late A. Angot in France and G. Hellmann in Germany. Last year Sir Richard Gregory presented us with a summary of the early meteorological records of the British Isles, and we have now to welcome an exhaustive compilation of the material from Belgium by the veteran meteorologist, E. Vanderlinden, commencing with the record of a rainy summer in the year A.D. 120, and continuing ' until the beginning of regular meteorological observations at Brussels in 1834.
Chronique des événements météorologiques en Belgique jusqu'en 1834.
Par E. Vanderlinden. Pp. 329. (Bruxelles: M. Hayez, 1924.) 16 francs.
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Chronique des événements météorologiques en Belgique jusqu'en 1834 . Nature 116, 239 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116239a0
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