Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology Part 16

_Elementary Meteorology._ ROBERT H. SCOTT. International Scientific Series. London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885; Boston, A. A. Waterman & Co., 1889. 8vo, pp. 410. 6 s.h.i.+llings.

The standard text-book in Great Britain. The author is secretary to the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society. Fairly complete, but now somewhat out of date in some portions. It is a useful book in a meteorological library, but does not treat the subject in a way very helpful to the teacher.

_Meteorology._ THOMAS RUSSELL. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1895. 8vo, pp. 277.

Brief and incomplete as a text-book of meteorology, but containing a very comprehensive account, fully ill.u.s.trated, of rivers and floods in the United States, and their prediction.

_Elementary Meteorology._ FRANK WALDO. New York, American Book Company, 1896. 8vo, pp. 373. 90 cents.

A compact summary. Useful to teachers as a handy reference book.

_Modern Meteorology._ FRANK WALDO. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. 8vo, pp. 460. $1.25.

Very complete account of meteorological apparatus and methods, and admirable summary of recent German studies of the thermodynamics and general motions of the atmosphere.

_C._ INSTRUCTIONS IN THE USE OF INSTRUMENTS.

_Instructions for Voluntary Observers._ 1899. 8vo, pp. 23. Brief instructions for taking and recording observations of temperature and precipitation with ordinary and maximum and minimum thermometers and with the rain gauge.

_Barometers and the Measurement of Atmospheric Pressure._ C. F. MARVIN.

1894. 8vo, pp. 74. A pamphlet of information respecting the theory and construction of barometers in general, with summary of instructions for the care and use of the standard Weather Bureau instruments.

_Instructions for Obtaining and Tabulating Records from Recording Instruments._ 1898. 8vo, pp. 31. Contains directions concerning the care and use of the Richard thermograph and barograph.

NOTE.--These pamphlets are prepared under the direction of Professor Willis L. Moore, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, and are published, under authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, by the Weather Bureau. They will be found the best guides in making observations, the care of instruments, etc.

_D._ JOURNALS, ETC.

_Monthly Weather Review._ Prepared under the direction of Willis L. Moore, Chief of Weather Bureau, Professor Cleveland Abbe, Editor. United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. 10 cents a copy.

An invaluable publication for teachers and students alike. Contains complete meteorological summaries for each month; accounts of all notable storms, cold and hot waves, etc.; and a large number of articles on a wide range of meteorological subjects. The charts show the tracks of areas of high and low pressure which crossed the United States during the month, the total precipitation, sea-level pressure, temperature and surface winds, percentage of suns.h.i.+ne, etc., for the month. Other charts are also frequently added.

_The Journal of School Geography._ Professor Richard E. Dodge, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, Editor. Publication Office, 41 No. Queen Street, Lancaster, Pa. Ten numbers a year. $1.00 per annum.

A monthly journal devoted to the interests of the common school teacher of geography. Contains numerous articles and notes on meteorological and climatological subjects.

_Science._ Edited by Professor J. McK. Cattell, Columbia University, New York City, New York, The Macmillan Company. Weekly. $5.00 per annum.

Devoted to the advancement of all sciences. Contains brief _Current Notes on Meteorology_, which summarize the more important meteorological publications.

_Monthly Bulletins of the Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bureau._

These _Bulletins_ are issued every month at the central office of the Weather Bureau in each State, under the direction of the Section Director of the Climate and Crop Service in that State. They contain meteorological data for the month, and frequently notes of interest. The annual summaries are especially valuable.

_E._ CHARTS.

_Daily Weather Maps._ These are published at the central office of the Weather Bureau in Was.h.i.+ngton, and at eighty-four other stations of the Bureau throughout the United States. It is best to have the daily maps sent from the nearest map-publis.h.i.+ng station, and not from Was.h.i.+ngton, as the delay in the latter case is often so great that much of the immediate value of the maps is lost.

_Climate and Crop Bulletin of the United States Weather Bureau._ Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. Monthly.

Chart showing, by means of small maps, the actual precipitation, departures from normal precipitation, departures from normal temperature, and maximum and minimum temperatures. Also a printed summary of the weather and of the crop conditions in the different sections of the United States. Issued on the first of each month.

_Snow and Ice Chart of the United States Weather Bureau._ Was.h.i.+ngton, D.

C. Weekly during the winter season.

Based on data from regular Weather Bureau stations, supplemented by reports from selected voluntary observers. Shows, by shading, the area covered with snow at 8 P.M. each Tuesday during the winter, and by lines, the depth of snow in inches. Explanatory tables and text accompany the chart.

_Storm Bulletin of the United States Weather Bureau._ Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.

Issued at irregular intervals.

Charts, with text, ill.u.s.trating the history of individual notable storms.

_Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans._ Hydrographic Office, Bureau of Equipment, Department of the Navy, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.

Monthly. Price 10 cents a copy.

Shows calms and prevailing winds, ocean currents, regions of fog and equatorial rains, the positions of icebergs and wrecks, steams.h.i.+p and sailing routes, storm tracks, magnetic variation, etc. Also gives isobars and isotherms and a forecast for the month succeeding the date of publication, and a review of the weather over the oceans for the preceding month. Supplementary charts are occasionally issued.

_Rainfall and Snow of the United States as compiled to the End of 1891, with Annual, Seasonal, Monthly, and other Charts._ MARK W. HARRINGTON.

United States Department of Agriculture. Weather Bureau, Bulletin C, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. 1894. Atlas, 18 24 inches. Charts 23. Text, 4-80 pp.

Contains twenty-three charts as follows: Monthly rainfall, seasonal rainfall, annual rainfall, monthly snowfall, monthly maxima of rainfall, rainy seasons, details of rainfall, details of occurrence of thunderstorms. Well adapted to serve as ill.u.s.trations for use in the cla.s.s-room. The text is explanatory, and is published separately in quarto form.

_Rainfall of the United States, with Annual, Seasonal, and other Charts._ ALFRED J. HENRY. United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Bulletin D, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. 1897. 9-1/4 11-1/2 inches. Pp. 58. Charts 10. Plates III.

A more recent publication than the preceding one, the averages having been compiled to the end of 1896. The charts are smaller than most of those in Bulletin C, and therefore not so well adapted for cla.s.s-room ill.u.s.tration.

The chart of mean annual precipitation is the latest and best published.

The rainfall of the crop-growing season receives separate treatment, and is ill.u.s.trated by means of two charts. The discussion in the text is excellent.

_F._ METEOROLOGICAL TABLES.

_Smithsonian Meteorological Tables._ Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 844. Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. 1893. 8vo. Pp. 262.

A very complete set of tables.

_Handbook of Meteorological Tables._ H. A. HAZEN (of the United States Weather Bureau). Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. 1888. 8vo. Pp. 127. $1.50.

Contains forty-seven tables, comprising all that are needed by the working meteorologist. Includes tables for Fahrenheit and Centigrade conversions, for barometric hypsometry and reduction to sea level, for the psychrometer, etc.

_Tables for Obtaining the Temperature of the Dew-Point, Relative Humidity, etc._ United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. 1897. 8vo. Pp. 29.

These are the tables now in use by the Weather Bureau.

_G._ ILl.u.s.tRATIONS.