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GEOPHYSICAL studies in Finland on truly scientific lines started early in the eighteenth century, a movement in which an 'invitation' of date 1723 from James Jurin, secretary of the Royal Society, to co-operate in meteorological observation, played a part. An account of the early history of Finnish geophysical studies appeared in 1935 in the first issue of a journal, Geophysica, published by the Geophysical Society of Finland, a body founded in 1926. Papers are read at its meetings; but the Society is not in the main a publishing body. Geophysica No. 1 (financed by a grant from lottery funds) included, however, three general articles besides the historical summary, and also thirty-six pages of summaries (by the authors) of Finnish geophysical papers published during 1930-34, giving a view (though incomplete) of the then recent Finnish activity in the subject. This view is now extended by the appearance in 1947 of Geophysica No. 2, which, like No. 1, is written wholly in English and German. Apart from two short articles on the Finnish Geodetic Institute, 1918-38, and the Isostatic Institute (subsidized, except during the War, by the International Association of Geodesy), the volume is devoted to authors' summaries of Finnish geophysical literature during the period 1935-44. An improvement on No. 1 is the inclusion of alphabetical lists of authors under five subject-headings, which makes the volume very convenient for reference in searching for any recent work done in Finland on these topics. The volume well indicates the extensive and valuable work done in geophysics in Finland during ten troubled years.
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Geophysics in Finland. Nature 162, 919 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162919b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162919b0