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Climate and Meteorology. Weather ft recasts and meteoro- 

 logical organisation in the interest of agriculture. Sunshine 

 and atmospheric temperatures in their relation to crops. 

 Frost-fighting. Hailstorms and efforts to prevent them. - 

 Atmospheric electricity and vegetation. Rainfall and 

 evaporation. -- The atmosphere as a source of plant food. 

 - Atmospheric purity in respect to vegetation. Damages 

 due to noxious fumes. 



JOHN MOORE. Meteorology, Practical and Applied. London, 

 Rebman, 1910. Reviewed in Nature, N. 2132, Vol. 84, p. 293. 

 September 8, 1910. 



" It is an admirable treatise on the methods of observation, it 

 demonstrates very satisfactorily what can be accomplished by in- 

 strumental means, and what are the objects and advantages to be 

 gained by the systematic collection of details. The principles 

 underlying this aspect of practical meteorology are well illustrated 

 by the description of the official weather service at home, in the 

 United States and in Canada. This information is thoroughly mo- 

 dern, trustworthy, and interesting. 



One section is devoted to the consideration of climate as de- 

 duced from the records supplied by instrumental means and one 

 to the influence of season and of weather on disease. Perhaps 

 the last is a larger subject than can be discussed adequately in 

 the space allotted to it, but it is a subject on which the writer 

 is an authority, and constitutes an important branch of meteoro- 

 logical science ". 



Meteorology in Great Britain, 1908. [Fourth Annual Report of 

 the Meteorological Committee.] (Ann. Rpt. Met. Com., Gr. Brit., 

 4, 1909). Reviewed in E. S. R. March 1910. Washington. 



This consists as usual of administrative reports regarding orga- 

 nisation and operations (during the year ended March 31, 1908) in 

 marine meteorology, forecasts and storm warnings, climatology, pu- 



