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IN the Journal of the Royal Statistical Bureau of Prussia for 1878, there is published a report on the meteorological organisations of the chief countries of Europe, Part I., by Dr. Gustav Hellmann, who is rapidly coming to the front as a first-class meteorologist. In addition to considerable mental capacity and much enthusiasm for the science, Dr. Hellmann has, at the instance, and with the assistance of the Prussian Minister of Public Instruction, especially qualified himself for the work by undertaking tours more or less prolonged, in the countries the meteorological systems of which he reports on. These in the Part before us are the various systems in France, Great Britain, Belgium, and Holland. With the aid of a renewed grant he sets out on a second tour, this time through northern Europe, especially Russia, for the purpose of presenting similar reports on the meteorology of these countries. This action on the part of the Prussian Government has been taken, in view of a contemplated reorganisation of its meteorological system, so that when the time comes, the system may be established, not at haphazard, but on a sure basis, founded on the fullest knowledge of the requirements of the science, and on the test means to be adopted for its healthy development.
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Meteorological Organisations . Nature 19, 514 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019514a0
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