A METEOROLOGICAL EXHIBIT 



The director is pleased to announce that the chief of the 

 United States Weather Bureau has authorized the installation 

 in the Museum, after the first of July, of a complete set of 

 meteorological instruments for automatically registering the wind 

 direction and velocity, sunshine and rainfall, temperature and 

 barometric pressure. This equipment will be identical with 

 that used in regular stations of the Weather Bureau throughout 

 the country and will be installed in such a manner as to afford 

 a practical demonstration of the daily work of these stations and 

 of the principles of weather forecasting. The instruments will 

 be accompanied by descriptive labels and will be supplemented 

 by charts in swinging frames, etc., in addition to the daily 

 weather maps now posted in the Museum. In connection with 

 this exhibit the library will be supplied with books and pam- 

 phlets on meteorology. 



The purpose of the Museum in securing this exhibit, and the 

 only condition upon which the co-operation of the Weather 

 Bureau was secured, is the promotion of a better popular appre- 

 ciation of the science of meteorology and its relation to import- 

 ant industries. To this end the Museum proposes to conduct 

 an intensive experiment with the public schools of Charleston, 

 demonstrating the principles which make possible a high de- 

 gree of accuracy in the forecasting of great storms and floods and 

 the necessary uncertainty pertaining to those minor, local 

 weather changes by which the science is often popularly judged. 



It is hoped that friends of the Museum will enable it to offer 

 small prizes, from time to time, for the best essays by children 

 of certain ages on meteorological subjects which involve the 

 use of the Museum library in connection with this exhibit. 



There is no more effective means of disseminating information 

 than by putting it in the minds of children, who will quickly 



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