Part 1

WEATHER WARNINGS FOR WATCHERS

BY THE “CLERK” HIMSELF.

WITH CONCISE TABLES FOR CALCULATING HEIGHTS

“The actuating force of every wind that blows; of every mighty current that streams through ocean depths; the motive cause of every particle of vapour in the air, of every mist and cloud and raindrop, is SOLAR RADIATION.”—George Warington.

LONDON HOULSTON AND SONS

PATERNOSTER SQUARE, E.C.

1877

LIST OF WORKS OF REFERENCE.

BOUTAN ET D’ALMEIDA. Cours Eléméntaire de Physique.

BUCHAN, A. Introductory Text-book of Meteorology. W. Blackwood and Sons, 1871.

CAZIN, ACHILLE. La Chaleur. Hachette and Co., 1868.

CRAMPTON, REV. JOS., M.A. The Three Heavens. W. Hunt and Co., 1876.

CHAMBERS’ Encyclopædia. W. and B. Chambers, 1875.

DREW, JOHN. Practical Meteorology. Van Voorst, 1870.

FITZROY, THE LATE ADMIRAL. Weather Book and Barometer Manual.

FLAMMARION, CAMILLE. L’Atmosphere.

GUILLEMIN AMEDÉE. Les Forces de la Nature.

GLAISHER, J., F.R.S. Hygrometrical Tables. Taylor and Francis, 1869.

HARTLEY, W. N. Air and its Relations to Life. Longmans, 1875.

HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN F. W. Meteorology, from Ency. Brit. A. and C. Black, 1860.

KAEMTZ, L. F. Complete Course of Meteorology. Baillière London.

MARTIN’S Natural Philosophy. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1868.

TYNDALL, JOHN, D.C.L., &c. Heat, a Mode of Motion. Fifth Edition. Longmans, 1875.

RODWELL. Dictionary of Science. E. Moxon and Co., 1871.

PROCTOR. Science Byways. Smith, Elder and Co., 1875.

SCOTT, R. H., M.A., F.R.S. Instructions in the Use of Meteorological Instruments, 1875.

WARINGTON, GEORGE. Phenomena of Radiation.

CONTENTS.