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“IN the United States meteorology is included in the course of study outlined by the Committee on Education and Special Training of the War Department for Students' Army Training Units. The plan involves an intensive study of the elements of the subject in order to familiarise prospective Army officers with its chief conclusions and methods.” It is to meet this requirement that “Introductory Meteorology,” a work of a hundred and fifty octavo pages, including seventy excellent illustrations, has been prepared by members of the staff of the United States Weather Bureau, including W. J. Humphreys, S. P. Fergusson, W. R. Gregg, J. Warren Smith, A. J. Henry, and C. F. Talman, who are all recognised as experts in the special subjects assigned to them.
Introductory Meteorology.
Prepared and Issued under the Auspices of the Division of Geology and Geography, National Research Council. Pp. xii + 150. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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SHAW, N. Introductory Meteorology . Nature 103, 123–124 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103123a0
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