“The advance of meteorology as a school study has been much hampered by the lack of a published outline of workmuch work in this subject which may be undertaken during the schoolin school years. There are several excellent text-books for moreyears. More advanced study, but there is no laboratory manual for use inadvanced in the elementary portions of the science. In many secondarythe secondary schools some instruction in meteorology is given, and theschools the keeping of meteorological records by the scholars is everykeeping every year becoming more general. There is yet, however, butyear but little system in this work, and, in consequence, there is littlelittle little definite result. The object of this book is to supply a guidedefinite guide in the elementary observational and inductive studies inin in meteorology. This Manual is not intended to replace themeteorology. The text-books, but is designed to prepare the way for theirtext-their more intelligent use. Simple preliminary exercises in themore the taking of meteorological observations, and in the study oftaking of the daily weather maps, as herein suggested, will lay a goodthe good foundation on which later studies, in connection with thefoundation the text-books, may be built up. Explanations of the varioustext-various facts discovered through these exercises are not consideredfacts considered to lie within the scope of this book. They may be found into in any of the newer text-books.”
