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for, the development of laws of a more general character that will enable us to 

 anticipate the weather for the season or the month. It is only by close 

 practical study that such an object can be achieved." 



In conclusion we would heartily recommend the book to 

 any who wish to obtain a thoroughly reliable and up-to-date 

 guide as to the progress of modern weather knowledge. The 

 work should most certainly be included in the library of every 

 school or college, and most especially of those in which the 

 subject now forms a part of the ordinary course of instruction. 

 In the introduction to the work, Dr. Shaw modestly disclaims 

 the possession of any large experience in the actual work of 

 daily weather forecasting, and points out that his position has 

 been mainly that of an onlooker. He, as modestly, omits to add 

 that if any advances have been made in this country within 

 recent years they have been due in a large measure to his own 

 guidance and advice. We are not deviating one atom from the 

 truth when we remark that a substantial portion of the material in- 

 cluded in the present work could not have been wi-itten eleven 

 years ago when the present director of the busy Government 

 department at South Kensington assumed the reins of office. 



One may add that Dr. Shaw's book is admirably produced. 

 The printing is bold and clear, and the numerous illustrations 

 afford much assistance to the reader, notably in the more ad- 

 vanced sections of the work, where such assistance is especially 

 needed. 



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THE NORWICH SHOW, 1911. 



The year li>ll opened for the Royal Agricultural Society 

 under exceptionally favourable auspices, with His Majesty 

 The King at its head as President. The Annual Show at 

 Norwich was, in many ways, the finest, most comprehensive, 

 and certainly one of the most notable that has ever taken 

 place in the long period of seventy-two years since the doors 

 of the first " Royal Show " were opened at Oxford in 1839. 

 The week following His Majesty's Coronation afforded an 

 opportunity for many of the distinguished personages gathered 

 together at that time from the four quarters of the globe to 

 visit the Exhibition of the premier Agricultural Society of 

 England in one of our most important agricultural counties, 

 and one in which King George himself is a landowner, farmer, 

 and stockbreeder. 



The Society has twice previously visited the Cathedral 

 City, first in 1849, sixty-two years ago, and on a second 

 occasion in 188G, since which time a quarti-r of a century 



