books.google.co.uk - Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Predicting_the_Weather.html?id=8GPl59EFk4IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePredicting the Weather
