Abstract
TN this book Mr. Bilham, superintendent of the British Climatology Division of the Meteorological Office, sets out to compile a reasonably complete summary of the main climatic features of the British Isles within the compass of a book of reasonable size. The book runs to 339 pages, and achieves in a marked degree the avowed intention of the author, and so meets a very long-felt want of meteorologists and geographers. It contains a wealth of information of a statistical character concerning the climatic elements of importance, all discussed and compared in a clear and interesting manner. Much of the information contained in the book has not hitherto been available in printed form, while still more was only available in the rather arid form of such publications as the “Book of Normals”.
The Climate of the British Isles:
being an Introductory Study of the Official Records, for Students and General Readers. By E. G. Bilham. Pp. xix + 347. (London: Mac-millan and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 2ls. net.
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BRUNT, D. The Climate of the British Isles. Nature 141, 851–852 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141851a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141851a0
