Cloud Classification ¹

Abstract

THE work of a meteorologist who has devoted himself with great diligence for many years to the study of the structure, forms, and movements of the clouds, possesses a strong claim on the attention of all who are interested in this difficult branch of science. Independently of the importance of the challenge which Prof. Poëy offers to an existing system of nomenclature, his book contains numerous facts and suggestions of very considerable scientific value. In the present enlarged and revised edition the author has endeavoured to satisfy the requirements of our advancing knowledge on the subject of which he treats; a task which ought, unfortunately, to be one of no great difficulty, owing to the small amount of progress which has been made in this, as compared with other departments of meteorology, since the appearance of the second edition.