Editor's Note

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Editor's Note Christopher Keep this issue's forum, dedicated to Victorian weather, features essays about meteorological events—fogs, hurricanes, and droughts—and about understandings of climate. Prominent among the themes the contributors explore are the distance between Indigenous and settler perceptions of weather and the role of racialized identity in Victorian-era thinking about climate. We are pleased to add that this forum features what is almost certainly the only essay by a meteorologist to be published in the pages of Victorian Review. The winning essay of the 2020 Hamilton Prize competition is "The Representation of Self and Other in a Semi-Colonial Environment: An Analysis of Japan Punch, 1862–87" by Beninio McDonough-Tranza (Free University of Berlin). We are pleased to publish this exceptional contribution to the field of Victorian studies in the current issue. The Hamilton Prize is awarded to the best essay submitted to our annual competition by a graduate student. Our grateful thanks go to the advisory board members who generously served as judges: John Miller, Monica Flegel, and Tabitha Sparks. Finally, it is my great pleasure to announce two additions to the Editorial Advisory Board: Natalie Houston (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) and Janice Schroeder (Carleton University). Advisory board members serve as an important sounding board for the journal's editorial policy and assist with the mentoring of emergent scholars through our Hamilton Prize competition. We are very fortunate to have such highly respected scholars, with so many demands on their time, join our team. [End Page V] Copyright © 2021 Victorian Studies of Western Canada