The Science of the Weather in a Series of Letters and Essays

Glasgow: William P Laidlaw. Good. 1867. Hard Cover. 8vo Original brown cloth boards a little loss to top and tail of spine. Gilt titling on spine. Pull out charts at rear. Five coloured plates. 382 pages clean and tight. TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION, by the Editor, - - BARBARA BURTON, as a Reformer of some Astrometeorological Fallacies, and the Pioneer of the true Astronomic Philosophy, - - II. Positive Philosophy, as a further Reform, and a Practical Exposition and Systemising of Planetary Action, by FREDERIC PRATT, F.M.S., - - - 11I. W. H. WHITE, M.B.S., F.C.L.,o as an exponent of the Physical Astronomy of the Science; with two essays on Comets, and one on Shooting Stars, - " MERCL'RIUS " - Further Exposition of Predictive Philosophy, - - - ADMIRAL FITZRoY's Exposition of the Soli - Lunar Cyclone Theory, with " R.'s " Refutations, - - Letters, Philosophical, Critical, and Controversial, by FREDERIC PRATT, F.M.S., - - - - Atmospheric Phenomena in 1865 and 1866 as coincident with Planetary Position, by "B," - - - 11 Weather in May, and Extremes of Temperature in April," with Diagrams against " Average " (or Season) Theory, and Demonstrable from Planetary Action, by "B," - - - - - - - ADDENDA, -o - - MR. BUCHAN and the Astronomic and Average Theories of Meteorology, by FREDERIC PRATT, F.M.S., - .