The Weather Book

• 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Meteorologic instruments; 3. Meteorologic instruments; 4. Historic sketch; 5. Brief general glance at climates around the world; 6. Lower, upper, and intermediate currents of air; 7. Recapitulation and further explanations; 8. Means employed to collect information; 9. Effects of the greater currents of air and their offsets around the world; 10. General view of climates in temperate zones; 11. Temperate zone; 12. Continuation of temperate zone; 13. Utilisation of meteorology: its statistics and dynamics; 14. Method of proceeding with telegrams; 15. Supposed cases for forecasting and warnings of weather; 16. Our atmosphere: its usual conditions; 17. Diagrams illustrative of Polar and typical air-currents; 18. Tidal effects of moon and sun; 19. Extracts from various accounts quoted by Sir William Reid illustrating forces of hurricanes; 20. Hurricanes in Pacific; 21. A few extreme cases witnessed by the author; Appendix; Index.

'Robert FitzRoy wrote The Weather Book in 1863. Cambridge University Press has added it to their Cambridge Library Collection, a group of books of historical importance because they were milestones in their particular field … Cambridge University Press have focused on making the text more readable, and the book benefits from being produced using the latest printing technology… overall it is beautifully produced and should last a long time. I wholeheartedly recommend it: there has been almost 150 years of scientific development in our discipline since then, and there are some areas that are different in modern meteorology, but that does not matter. It is a good read and it is enjoyable to recognise the differences between the state of meteorology in the mid-Victorian era and today.' Weather