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In submitting this small work to the public, we venture to express the hope that it may prove acceptable as being the first effort in the nature of a text-book that has been published on Australian Meteorology.

Our acknowledgments are due to the staff individually and collectively for their ready co-operation in the compilation of data on which the whole subject-matter is based.

Finally, we should like to remind our readers of the imperishable debt of gratitude we all owe to those revered pioneers in Australian Meteorology, H. C. Russell, Esq., B.A., C.M.G., F.R.S.; R. L. J. Ellery, Esq., C.M.G., F.R.S.; and Sir Chas. Todd, M.A., F.R.S., whose strenuous and untiring labours contributed so largely towards bringing our knowledge of Australian climatology to its present advanced stage at a comparatively early age in our national history.

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