Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Meteorology, Charlatanry, Observation, Amateurism

    Punch proposes adding to its establishment 'a gentleman' who will record 'fluctuations of heat and cold' by using his fingers, toes, and the end of his nose. Notes the unsatisfactory nature of observations made by this means but presents deductions from rain collected in an umbrella stand and from 'twenty-yaws against our drawing-room window'.