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THE organisation reports of (1) the Royal Prussian Meteorological Institute (Berlin) and (2) the Deutsche Seewarte (Hamburg) for the year 1912 have been recently published. The operations of these establishments are quite distinct; the institute dates from 1847, as a department of the Statistical Bureau, under Dr. W. Mahlmann, to whose life and work a special article is devoted in the report for this year. The work of the institute (which became an independent meteorological organisation in 1886) consists to a considerable extent of special scientific researches which appear in the Abhandlungen and elsewhere, and in the preparation and publication of the observations made at a large number of stations, separate departments dealing specially with meteorology, rainfall, and thunderstorms. It also controls the work of Potsdam Observatory, which undertakes various branches of geophysical investigation. Among the various discussions in this year's report we may mention an interesting inquiry into the Thuringian deluge of May, 1613, by Dr. Hellmann (director).
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German Meteorological Reports . Nature 91, 230 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091230a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091230a0