Weather Bureau
the govern part light reddish-brown, under surface short, and furred to end of toes. Upper nations for the systematic observing and predicting of the weather from day to day. Many of these were established before weather predictions were considered practicable or even possible, and in such offices the original object of the instatistics considered as an important item in the description of the country and the study of its agriculture, dissuch older statistical bureaus may be institution was the collection of climatic the Suregon-General's Office, U. S. A., of stanced the Meteorological Division of such older statistical bureaus may be in- eases, and other vital phenomena. Of Central Physical Observatory at St. the Suregon-General's Office, U. S. A., of Petersburg, and of the office of the Registrar-General, London. Some of these climatic bureaus have had their scope Registrar-General, London. Some of these Petersburg, and of the office of the enlarged by the imposition of the addi- Central Physical Ob tional duty of weather and storm prenew office has been established for this Observatory at St. special wor special work;
such, for instance, are the new office has been established for this dictions, but in most cases an entirely tional duty of weather and storm prein 1861 under the Board of Trade, and dictions, but in most cases an entirely now under the administration of Royal Society, the Meteorological Divi- Paris, enlarged in 1859, and now transwork ;
such, for instance, are the sion of the Astronomical Observatory at Royal Society, the Meteorological Divi- now under the administration of the in 1861 under the Board of Trade, and Paris, enlarged in 1859, and now transsion of the Astronomical Observatory at to the Royal Meteorological Institute for founded in 1867, Saxony at Berlin; the Central Office for Meteorology at Rome; the Meteorolog ical Office of the Customs Bureau at Hong Kong; the office of the Meteorological Reporter for India at Calcutta; the Imperial Signal Office at Tokio, Japan; and the Weather Bureau, formerly of the Signal Office in the Depart- WEATHER BUREAU of the
67, now in part transferred WEASEL part of the Department of Agriculture.
The appointment of official predicters in all countries whose territories are suffi ciently well covered by telegraph tions is at once a demonstrou ment of War at Washington, but now a WEATHER SIGNAL revolution that has taken place in our ideas with regard to the utility of meteorology, concerning which science it is only a comparatively few years since prominent astronomers and physicists expressed grave doubts as to the value of the great accumulation of observations, and as to the possibility of developing anything more than a crude and useless guess as to the weather of the forthcoming day.
WEBB these birds have reference to the remarkable structure of their nests. The weaver birds are large finches, with somewhat elongated bodies, moderate 10 arod