PROFESSOR TAKEMATU OKADA

text-book of meteorology.

There are also some of his papers of a mathematical nature such as those regarding the geometrical construction for finding the centre and track of cyclone. Thanks to his natural sympathy towards the mathematical school of meteorology, a pleiades of able mathematicians have risen up among the younger generation of meteorologists under his unwearying guidance and cordial encouragement.

At the same time he is deeply interested in the practical problem of long period weather prediction, especially in connection with the agricultural