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ANUAL OF METEOROLOGY.

VOLUME I

METEOROLOGY IN HISTORY

BY

SIR NAPIER SHAW, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S.
Late Professor of Meteorology in the Imperial College of Science and
Technology and Reader in Meteorology in the University of London;
Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; sometime
Director of the Meteorological Office, London, and President

of the International Meteorological Committee

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF

ELAINE AUSTIN

of the Meteorological Office
formerly of Newnham
College, Cambridge

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