Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Natural Science 1904

But before going on to the subject of the paper I may perhaps be permitted to point out that it is not apparent whether the criticism of the writer in the Pioneer is directed against the system on which weather forecasting is done in this part of the world or whether it is against the subordinates I might almost say the rank and tile of the Weather Bureau who in no way responsible for the sys [...] It requires only a cursory examinationtof the meteorological hitory of the early years of the department to realize even in the light of the accumulated experience of the intervening years how sound was the instinct displayed and practical the view that was taken of the possibilities of meteorological work in India by its founder Mr. [...] That theory has been given in published reports and in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and its distinctive feature is the connection between the condition of the upper atmospheric strata as indicated by snowfall in the Himalayas and the character of the coming monsoon. [...] The following extracts are taken from his report on the Meteorology of India in 1882 :— In Europe and America the attention of the leading Meteorolgical Physicists would seem to have been concentrated of lute years mainly on the physics of the vortical movements of the atmosphere of cyclones and anticyclones the importance of which is keenly felt owing to the prominence given to storm"152 [...] " The discussion of the Meteorology of India in the preceding pages has shown clearly :- (1) That the conditions in India in the latter part of May and the commencement of June were such as are usually associated with an early and strong monsoon more especially ns judged by the data of the period 1875-1892 antecedent to the period of anomalous and remarkable conditions obtaining from 1892 to 190