(1) The Rainfall of the British Isles (2) Études Elémentaires de Météorologie Pratique (3) Simple Lessons on the Weather for School Use and General Reading (4) Handbook of Meteorology: A Manual for Cooperative Observers and Students

Abstract

(1) IN “The Rainfall of the British Isles” Mr. Salter gives a wealth of information that hitherto could be obtained only by searching through the volumes of “British Rainfall.” The present work should therefore appeal to the large public which takes an interest in rainfall, and as some 5000 observers read their gauges daily it will be realised how large that public is. Almost every observer would benefit by a perusal of this work, where he will find a discussion of the problems which he himself is assisting to solve. He will find an account of the various types of gauge, and that some, still in use and still sold by instrument makers, are untrustworthy. He will find the exposure of gauges discussed, and he may improve that of his own. He will learn how the data he supplies are used, and find maps illustrating various types of rain, some almost wholly influenced by orographical features, some by the passage of depressions, and others due to thunderstorms.

(1) The Rainfall of the British Isles.

By M. de Carle S. Salter. Pp. xiii + 295. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1921.) 8s. 6d. net.

(2) Études Elémentaires de Météorologie Pratique.

By Albert Baldit. Pp. ix + 347. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1921.) 15 francs net.

(3) Simple Lessons on the Weather for School Use and General Reading.

By E. Stenhouse. Pp. viii + 135 + 12 plates. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 4s.

(4) Handbook of Meteorology: A Manual for Cooperative Observers and Students.

By J. W. Redway. Pp. v + 294. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1921.) 24s. net.