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Life and Letters of Franci« Galton 



Galton's suj^jestions with the isobar maps of to-day. still giving wind by 

 arrows, recording temperature by figures and state of the heavens in words. 

 This original meteorological map for the Times must have been at a later 

 dat« than we are now considenng, perhaps about 1 869, as the drill panta- 

 graph must have been previously constructed. 



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But I cannot find that it was ever published. The first issue of a 

 weather-map in the Times was on April 1, 1875, and we give on p. 43 a 

 reproduction of it. An account of the matter was published in Nature, 

 April 15, 1875. We give a few sentences from it: 



"The method of preparation of the chart seems simple enough at present, but it has been 

 the fruit of much thought, as the problem of producing in the space of an hour a stereotype fit 

 for use in a Walter machine has not been solved without many and troublesome experimeuta" 



Then follows a brief description of the material, the drill pantagraph (see 

 our p. 46) and the engraving of the block. 



"The initiative in this new method of weather illustration is due to Mr Francis Galton 



It is hardly necessary to allude to the value of such charts as these as a means of leading the 

 public to gain some idea of the laws which govern some of our weather changes." 



The Shippincf Gazette started publishing on January 4, 1871 a daily 

 chart for the winds round the coast of the British Isles on the basis of 

 report* telegraphed to the Meteorological Office. It states in its issue that 

 "this new system of showing the direction aiifl force of the wind by movable 

 types etc. has been entered at Stationers' Hall." After Galton's maps of 

 1861 and 1863, it is difficult to see why the system should be called 'new.' 



The publication of the Meteorographica placed Galton at once among 



