About the Book
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and historical patterns of the severe weather and climate change that greatly preoccupy today’s society. Thematically focused collections of primary sources support the research and study needs not only of scholars, but also graduate and postgraduate students. To this end, the volumes contextualize and explain the contents of these sources. The collection brings together the most relevant themes in current scholarship: weather forecasting and nation-state building; cyclones, trade, and navigation; meteorology and religion; and weather, climate, and empire.
Table of Contents:
Volume IV: Weather, Climate and Europe
Acknowledgments
Series Preface
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume IV
Part 1. The Army, the Navy and Imperial Network
1.1 Imperial network
1. John Daniell, Meteorological Essays (London: Thomas & George Underwood, 1823), pp. ix-xix, 263-266
2. James D. Forbes, ‘Report upon the Recent Progress and Present State of Meteorology’, in Report of the First and Second Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831 and 1832; at York in 1831, and at Oxford in 1832: Including Its Proceedings, Recommendations and Transactions (London: John Murray, 1833), pp. 196–200, 205
3. John Frederick William Herschel, Instructions for Making and Registering Meteorological Observations in Southern Africa and other Countries in the South Seas, as also at Sea (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1835), pp. 1-17
1.2 The Army
4. William Reid, The Progress of the Development of the Law of Storms and of the Variable Winds, with the Practical Application of the Subject to Navigation (London: John Weale, 1849), pp. 1-17, 24-31, 411-422
5. Capt. Henry James, Instructions for Taking Meteorological Observations at the Principal Foreign Stations of the Royal Engineers (London: J. Weale, 1851), pp. 1-3, 14-16
6. Henry James, Abstracts from the Meteorological Observations Taken at the Stations of the Royal Engineers in the year 1853-54 (London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1855), pp. 1-6, 107-110
7. Meteorological Observations at the Foreign and Colonial Stations of the Royal Engineers and the Army Medical Department 1852-1886 (London: H.M.S.O., 1890), pp. i-xiii
1.3 The Admiralty
8. John Frederick William Herschel, ‘Meteorology’, in John Frederick William Herschel (ed.), A Manual of Scientific Enquiry; Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Navy; and Travellers in General. London: John Murray, 1849), pp. iii-iv, 268-273, 303-311
9. Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Remarks on Revolving Storms (London: HMSO, 1851), pp. 3-7, 10-15
10. W. Snow Harris, Remarkable Instances of the Protection of Certain Ships of Her Majesty’s Navy from the Destructive Effects of Lightning (London: Richard Clay, 1847), pp. 3-8
Part 2. Climate and climatologies
2.1 Climate definition
11. Alexander von Humboldt, Cosmos: A Survey of the General Physical History of the Universe (New York: Harper & Bros, 1845), pp. 96-100
2.2 Isotherm and mean temperature
12. David Brewster, ‘Observations of the Mean Temperature of the Globe’, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 9, 1821, pp. 201-204, 220-225
2.3 Statistical tools
13. Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Erläuterungen zu den Monatsisothermen (Berlin: Reimer Akademische Buchdruckerei, 1849), pp. 1-3
14. Adolphe Quetelet, Letters Addressed to the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha on the Theory of Probability as Applied to the Moral and Political Sciences¸ trans. by O. G. Downes (London: Charles and Edwin Layton, 1849 [1846]), pp. 48-57
2.4 Urban climatology
15. Luke Howard, The Climate of London, Deduced from Meteorological Observations, Made at Different Places in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis 2 vols. (London: W. Phillips. Rev. ed., 1833), pp. 1-2, 8-11, 147
2.5 Descriptive climatology
16. Lorin Blodget, Climatology of the United States and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent (Philadelphia, 1857), pp. 17-28
2.6 Global climatology
17. James Henry Coffin (with contrib. by Selden Jennings Coffin and Alexander Woeikof), The Winds of the Globe or the Laws of Atmospheric Circulation over the Surface of the Earth (Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Institution, 1876), Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. 20, No. 268, pp. 5, 7-11
18. Julius Hann, 1903. Handbook of Climatology (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1903), pp. 1-5, 128-129
19. Léon Teisserenc de Bort, ‘Nouvelles cartes d’isothermes et d’isobares moyennes à la surface du globe, en janvier, mars, juillet, octobre’, Annales du Bureau Central Météorologique de France, 4, 1-62, 1881, pp. 1-9
20. Bartholomew's Physical Atlas. Volume 3. Atlas of Meteorology. Volume 5. Atlas of Zoogeography (London: A. Constable & Company, 1899), preface, followed by 12 maps
Part 3. Colonial Meteorology and Climatology
3.1 Australia
21. R.L.J. Ellery, ‘The Present State of Meteorology’, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 14, 1877, pp. 10–19.
22. H.C. Russell, ‘Meteorological Periodicity’, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 10, 1876, pp. 151–160, 166-167
23. Charles Todd, ‘Droughts in Australia: Their Causes, Duration, and Effect: The Views of Three Government Astronomers [R.L.J. Ellery, H.C. Russell, C. Todd]’, The Australasian (Melbourne, Victoria), December 29, 1888, 1455–1456.
24. Charles Egeson, Egeson’s Weather System of Sun-spot Causality, Being Original Researches in Solar and Terrestrial Meteorology (Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1889), pp. vii-ix, 11-12, 61-63
3.2 Hong Kong
25. William Doberck, Instructions for Making Meteorological Observations Prepared for the Use in China and the Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas (Shanghai: Published by the order of the Inspector General of Customs, Published at The Statistical Department of the Inspector General of Customs, 1887), pp. 1, 3-14
3.3 India
26. Henry Piddington, A letter to the most noble James Andrew, Marquis of Dalhousie, Governor General of India, on the storm wave of the cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and their effects in the Sunderbunds (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1853), pp. 8-9, 14-16, 20
27. Henry Francis Blanford, ‘On the Connexion of the Himalaya Snowfall with Dry Winds and Seasons of Drought in India’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 37, 232–234, 1884, pp. 3-4, 20-22
28. Henry Francis Blanford, A Practical Guide to the Climates and Weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the Storms of Indian Seas (London: MacMillan and Co., 1889), pp. vii-x, 358-364
3.4 Mauritius
29. Charles Meldrum, ‘On Synoptic Charts of the Indian Ocean’, Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 3, 1868, pp. 143–146
30. Charles Meldrum, ‘On a Periodicity of Rainfall in Connexion with the Sun-Spot Periodicity’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 21 (31 December 1873), pp. 297-302
31. Cyclonic Tracks in the South Indian Ocean From Information Compiled by Dr. Meldrum (London: Printed for H.M.S.O. by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1891).
3.5 Singapore
32. Charles Morgan Elliot, 1851. Meteorological Observations made at The Honorable East India Company’s Magnetical Observatory at Singapore, 1841–5 (Madras: printed at the American Mission and Male Asylum Presses, 1851), pp. xi-xii, 1-10, 110
References
Index
About the Author :
Aitor Anduaga is a scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, who has specialized in the history of social, ideological and cultural dimensions of meteorology and geophysical sciences in general.
