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A MEETING of the International Meteorological Committee was held in Rome on April 7–12, at the invitation of Prof. Palazzo, director of the Italian Meteorological Service. The meeting was attended by Dr. W. N. Shaw, president of the committee, Geheimrat Hellmann, the director of the Prussian Meteorological Service, secretary, and the following members, representing the meteorological services of their respective countries:—France, M. Angot; Portugal and Azores, M. Chaves; Holland, M. van Everdingen; Sweden, M. Hamberg; Switzerland, M. Maurer; Italy, M. Palazzo; Denmark, M. Ryder; Russia, M. Rykatcheff; and Canada, Mr. Stupart. There were also present Prof. Hergesell, the president of the International Commission for Scientific Aeronautics, and Prof. Bjerknes, who had made important proposals, at the meeting of this commission held in Vienna in 1912, regarding the form in which meteorological data for the upper air should be published. At the opening meeting letters expressing regret at their inability to attend the meeting were read from Prof. Mohn, Norway; Prof. Willis Moore, United States of America; Prof. Nakamura, Japan; and Dr. G. T. Walker, India.
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International Meteorology . Nature 91, 198–200 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091198a0
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