THE DEVELOPMENT OF METEOROLOGY. 37 
f eased, however, that his work did not greatly affect the trend 
of thought in those days; it was too early for Germany to be 
able to take advantage of his teachings. Nevertheless, as the 
principal editor of the most famous encyclopedia of physics, 
he filled the first few volumes of Gehler’s Physikalisches Wor- 
terbuch with the most advanced knowledge of his day! The 
sixth volume of that work, published at Leipsic in 1837, con- 
tains an article on meteorology written by Muncke after the 
death of Braudes, in 1834; therein Muncke relates of himself 
and Brandes that in 1820 they had developed a plan (that 
had to be given up on account of wars between Italy and 
Spain) for the publication of a general European journal of 
meteorology, in which Muncke should devote himself to the 
southwestern half of Europe, but Brandes to the northeastern 
half. Twenty-four principal stations were selected, between 
Sebastopol and Lisbon, Christiania and St. Petersburg, for 
which they were to publish monthly tables of the individual 
daily readings of all meteorological elements, and to which 
they proposed to add every notice that could be obtained rela- 
tive to the weather on those same dates for North America, 
East Indies, and other distant parts of the globe. Muncke 
remarks that this plan was rather gigantic, but it responded 
to the recognized fact that science was covering a broader 
field and that international works such as those on the meas- 
urements of degrees, observations of gravity, and voyages of 
discovery were already recognized as necessary. In fact, 
only in this way can meteorology attain to a solid basis, and 
it is necessary that the scientific public should be able to com- 
pare observations made at widely distant places; for the works 
above mentioned by Brandes had already shown that the 
causes upon which depend the existence of the storms in 
western Europe must be sought for over the Atlantic Ocean. 
Muncke concludes by saying: “Time will show whether the 
nations of Europe already so intimately related to each other 
will by mutual business arrangements support such a meteor- 
ological union to the furthering of the general peace of the 
continent.” Since the days of the Palatine Society and its 
active secretary, Ilemmer, there never has been any doubt 
