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IN the article “Atmosphere” of the Encyclopædia. Britannica it has been justly remarked that one of the most important steps that could be taken towards the development of the science of meteorology would be extensive series of observations from such countries as India, which offers splendid contrasts of climate at all seasons, has a surface covered at one place with the richest vegetation, and at others with vast stretches of sandy deserts, and presents extensive plateaus and sharp ascending peaks, all which conditions are indispensable for collecting the data required for the solution of the problem of atmospheric physics. In working out this problem it is necessary, owing to its extreme complexity and difficulty, to give attention, not merely to questions immediately bearing on the physics of the atmosphere, but also to climatic and other practical inquiries, which may be handled with comparative ease and which afford results that contribute indirectly but very materially to the solution of the higher problem. The publications enumerated below admirably follow up this two-fold line of inquiry, and even already several important practical and theoretical conclusions seem not far from the point of being reached by the meteorologists of India.
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Indian Meteorology 1 . Nature 19, 293–294 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019293a0
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