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of the British Empire, and be of the highest educational and scientific 

 worth. 1 In the United States, meteorological research has always 

 been fostered by individuals, of whom the names of Franklin, Red- 

 field, Espy, Coffin, Maury, Loomis, and Ferrel are brilliant examples. 

 To-day my colleague, M. Teisserenc de Bort in France, and we 

 ourselves at Blue Hill, are endeavoring, unassisted, to solve problems 

 in dynamic meteorology, which ought to be undertaken by the na- 

 tional services of our respective countries. It behooves, then, those 

 who are desirous of advancing the status of meteorology to strive to 

 convince the public that the function of a Government Bureau is not 

 merely to collect meteorological data and to make inductive weather 

 predictions based on remembrance of the sequence in similar con- 

 ditions, but that the science of meteorology requires laborious 

 researches by competent men and the generous expenditure of 

 money before practical benefit can result from improved weather 

 forecasts. If some of my hearers are converted to such an opinion, 

 this address will have served a useful purpose. 



1 Sir J. Eliot at British Association, Cambridge, 1904. Nature, vol. LXX, p. 406. 



