WEST INDIAN HURRICANES (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from West Indian HurricanesThe committee on meteorology of the institute, acting in conjunction with a similar committee from the American Philosophical Society, organized and equipped stations throughout the State and began the collection and preservation of data concerning weather phenomena. This work, it must be remembered, was carried on without the aid of the telegraph, but it was so thoroughly done that from the data thus gathered was formulated a theory of storms which is substantially the same as that which is generally accepted to-day. This work was carried on for a number of years by the Franklin Institute, in fact until, through the efforts of Prof. Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, the attention of the Government was drawn to the matter. The interest thus aroused finally resulted in the organization of the Weather Bureau as it exists to-day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,