Meteorology practical and applied / by Sir John Moore.

  • Moore, John W. (John William), 1845-1937.
Date:
1910
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    the many scientific friends who have helped me in my endeavour to make this book a worthy exponent of Modern Meteorology. My special thanks are due to Dr. W. Napier Shaw, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., Director of the Meteorological Office, London, and the members of the staff of that Office—in particular, to Mr. R. G. K. Lempfert, M.A., Superintendent of the Statistics and Library Branch ; also to Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., LL.D., Chief of the British Rainfall Organisation, who was good enough to read and criticise the chapters on the Atmosphere of Aqueous Vapour; to Mr. Ernest Gold, Reader in Meteorology in the University of Cambridge; to Mr. R. F. Stupart, the Director of the Meteorological Service of Canada ; and to Mr. William Marriott, F.R.Met.Soc., Assistant Secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society, and author of an admirable handbook entitled Hints to Meteorological Observers, prepared by him under the direction of the Council of that Society—a work which I have laid under heavy contribution to my pages. The very full Index of Subjects and Places and the Index of Proper Names have been compiled with much care by my son, William E. A. Moore, M.A.Univ.Dubl., and will, I think, be found of great use for reference. Pie has also helped me by read- ing the proof-sheets as they went through the press. It will be observed that the volume is copiously illustrated. For this I am indebted to the liberality of the publishers, Messrs. Rebman, Ltd. ; to the Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office ; to the Meteorological Office and the Council of the Royal Meteorological Society ; to various leading firms engaged in the manufacture of meteorological instruments; and to Mr. F. Plolmes, of Mere, Wiltshire, for the photograph of a flash of lightning taken by its own light in May, 1906. Lastly, my thanks are due, and are hereby accorded, to Dr. W. N. Shaw for the plate illustrating his model of the block of the atmospheric area under observation by ballons-sondes on July 27 and 28, 1908. This ingenious model is described at p. 336. The illustration of Cloud Forms is taken from Weather Lore, by kind permission