1896.] ESSAYS. 59 



are accustomed to bunch together phases of our early experience, and 

 the error is with us. The mean temperature is the same as one hun- 

 dred years ago. 



Students have studied astronomy for the love of the science and 

 not for the money there is in it. Now we are accustomed to give up 

 everything in our weather researches to that which will bring in an 

 immediate return of cash. This is a foolish policy. If the study of 

 the weather is pursued persistently as a science for a few years, it 

 can be made a science. 



