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THE recent article in NATURE on the Treasury Blue Book relating to meteorology brings into unpleasant prominence the opinion of the eminent astronomer, Sir G. Airy, that meteorology is not a science; and the evidence of the eminent physicist, Sir William Thomson, to the same effect; while a celebrated philosopher in the columns of the Fortnightly Review has not long since described meteorology as “a formless registry of facts.”
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ABERCROMBY, R. Is Meteorology a Science?. Nature 15, 510 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015510c0
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