He was back with the Bureau in March 1914 and stayed for over six years, taking a few months off for further travel and study before taking up a new position on 1 January 1921 at the Sydney University; he had been given the task of establishing and developing courses in a new Department of Geography.

At the Bureau Taylor occupied a room with another research worker, E. J. Quayle formerly of the Melbourne Observatory. These six years were fruitful ones, both officers producing works of high merit, most of which were published. Taylor was a voluminous writer; his writings were generously illustrated with diagrams, most of them of his own design, and he worked to the principle that early publication of one's findings and results was advisable, rather than holding them in the hope of finding time to improve and add to them.

He quickly absorbed the science of meteorology, (no doubt helped by many discussions with Quayle) in both aspects, i.e. weather and climate, but with a decided leaning towards the latter and its control of settlement and production, particularly with respect to the Australian tropics.

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