Espy, James P.
Second [and Third] Report on Meteorology to the Secretary of the Navy.
Government Printing Office, Washington, DC; 1850
65 pages of text. 101 maps and 11 folding charts.
Oblong folio (11 by 15")
The folding charts are about 20 by 30"
Original gilt-lettered cloth; spine-ends and tips worn and frayed, a few margin tears, some creases, generally sound otherwise.
(Sabin 22917). (Washington, 1851)

James Pollard Espy (or the Storm King) (1785 – 1860) was a U.S. meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Académie des Sciences and the British Royal Society. His theory was published in 1840 as The Philosophy of Storms. He became meteorologist to the War (1842) and Navy (1848) departments and developed the use of the telegraph in assembling weather observation data by which he studied the progress of storms and laid the basis for scientific weather forecasting



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