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THE issue of an annual edition of this work, arranged in 1909, was very appropriate—from a scientific point of view—owing to the rapid advance of meteorological research in recent years. The progress of aërial navigation and the proposed general extension of the centimetre-gram-second system of units to meteorological measurements give greater force to the desirability of the arrangement. The work is divided into four principal sections, most carefully prepared with due regard to requirements of observers and to decisions of international conferences. Part i. relates mostly to normal climatological stations and to non-instrumental observations. The articles referring to modifications of aqueous vapour and to optical phenomena are especially interesting. Parts ii. and iii. deal with self-recording and additional instruments, special attention, being given to the attainment of accuracy in their working. Part iv. contains reduction and conversion tables, including those adapted for the c.g.s. system. An introductory memorandum on the proposed new units, to be used for bringing meteorology into line with allied sciences, is most useful. Certainly the learning of them “does involve a definite effort to begin with,” but the proposed regradua-tion of instruments will, as pointed out elsewhere, probably remove the main objection to the innovation.
Meteorological Office. The Observer's Handbook 1913.
Pp. xxiv + 157 + plates. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1913.) Price 3s.
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Meteorological Office The Observer's Handbook 1913 . Nature 92, 629 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092629a0
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