Early China coast meteorology : the role of Hong Kong /
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Author / Creator: | MacKeown, P. K. |
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Imprint: | Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
Series: | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121502 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures; Foreword to the Series; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Nineteenth-Century Observatories; 2 An Observatory for Hong Kong; 3 A Director for the New Observatory; 4 Government Astronomer or 'Merely a Meteorological Observer'; 5 Universal Dissatisfaction; 6 Typhoon Studies; 7 A Jesuit Conspiracy!; 8 A New Age; Appendix A A Gazeteer; Appendix B Hong Kong Observatory Publications; Appendix C Publications of John I. Plummer; Appendix D Publications of A.W. Doberck; Notes; Bibliography; Index