Brigham City Bugler | 1891-08-01 | Page 2 | Professor Proctor on Weather Prospects

1 Professor Proctor on Wcntber Prospects. The late Richard A Proctor, it appears, ap-pears, had no faith in the modern system of weather guessing, based on the so called Bcience of "planetary meteorology," meteorol-ogy," or the appearance of the sun spots. Some years ago, while storm bound at Davenport, la., the professor was interviewed inter-viewed by the editor of The Pernocrat, and reference being made to that subject, sub-ject, he said: "Oh, that is all humbug; you might as well try to tell where the largest wave or the greatest white cap will rise during a storm in mid ocean, as i to localize storms by observing the posi-. posi-. tion of the planets or the size of sun spots. It cannot be don. Look at it a minute. You single out a very small portion of the earth, which is a very J small portion of our universe, and say the movements of the heavenly bodies will produce such and such conditions of 1 we"tHer in certain neighborhood, region. : state, conii.;entI The earth isn't con-1 con-1 cerned more than any other planet. The vast extent of untold millions of miles is narrowed down, localized, to an atom, as it were. No astronomical research justities any such thing. I have no patience pa-tience with it." Cincinnati Enquirer.