PART VI. CONCLUSION 



CHAPTER I. WANTED, A UNITED METEORO- 

 LOGICAL SERVICE FOR AUSTRALIA. 



WE have seen how changes in the Southern 

 Ocean may affect the Australian climate ; that 

 it is clearly recognised that movements in the 

 Southern Ocean determine some of the most 

 important events in the Indian weather ; and 

 that it is claimed that the earlier discovery of 

 the Lockyers' law would have enabled all the 

 Indian famines of the last half century, to have 

 been accurately foretold. Meteorology in 

 Australia is far behind that of India, and will 

 require to make up much ground before Aus- 

 tralia is in the same position of vantage as 

 India. The continent which gave meteorology 

 that powerful agent of research, the Har- 

 greave's kite, is the only continent which has 

 not employed it for meteorological work, 

 Professor Schuster, in a recent address to the 

 British Association deplored the conservatism 

 of meteorological work. He declared that 

 meteorologists were enslaved to continuity, that 

 the brilliant progress in the science during the 

 past few years has been achieved, not by 



