1904 METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS - CHINA - 5 Issues

Result of the Meteorological Observations Made at the Japanese Meteorological Station in Nanking; Chee-Foo; Kushunkotan (Korsakovsk); Hangchow; and Mukden.

Publisher: Japan: The Central Meteorological Observatory, 1804, 1805.
5 Separate Issues - Original Condition in Publisher's Printed Wrappers!

Detailed compilation of data tables on meteorological observations performed at the Japanese Meteorological Observatory in Chinese towns of Nanking (Nanjing), Chefoo (Yantai), Kushunkotan (Korsakovsk), Hangchow (Hangzhou), and Mukden in the years 1804 and 1805, printed in five separate issues.

This is a set of 5 complete issues of the Japanese Meteorological Observations in China. Large quarto, measuring 30cm x 22cm.Altogether 53 pages, filled with data tables. Text is in English and Japanese. Issues are complete and in original publisher's printed wrappers, titled to front. National Physical Laboratory stamps to front wrappers, small chips and tear to wrappers and some pages, otherwise a good reading material with complete text.

Nanjing (Nanking) is the capital of China's Jiangsu Province, and a city with a prominent place in Chinese history and culture. Nanjing served as the capital of China during several historical periods and is listed as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China before the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Located in the lower Yangtze River drainage basin and Yangtze River Delta economic zone, Nanjing has always been one of China's most important cities.

Chefoo, now called Yantai, was opened as a treaty port by the British in 1862. It was a summer station for the U.S. Asiatic fleet between the world wars. The waterfront, an atrraction for sailors on liberty, was once called the Brighton of China. Chefoo is known to foreigners as the site of the Chefoo School of the China Inland Mission, established in 1889 by the mission, under James Hudson Taylor. A Christian boarding school with a curriculum based on the British system, it provided education to the children of missionaries and the business and diplomatic communities.