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OUR readers will learn with much satisfaction that Sweden has resolved to take part in the international meteorological and magnetical observations in the Polar regions, and arrangements have been made for carrying on the observations from June 1, 1882, tilt June 1, 1883. The house erected at Masselbay in Spitzbergen by Nordenskjöld's expedition, is still in good condition, and will be fitted up for the observatory. In connection with the Spitzbergen Observatory, Haparanda, at the head of the Gulf of Bpothnia, is to be created into a first-class observatory, and furnished with Theorell's self-registering and printing meteorological apparatus; and all other observations will be made which are expected of a first-class observatory. M. Hjeltström is appointed director of the Haparanda Observatory. The funds to meet the expenses of the expedition and the two observatories have been most generously supplied by M. L. O. Smith, Stockholm. Prof. Hildebrandsson, the eminent Swedish meteorologist, has been entrusted with the discussion of the observations made by Prof. Nordenskjöld on the celebrated Vega Expedition, to the publication of which meteorologists will look forward with the liveliest interest.
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Meteorological Notes . Nature 23, 322–323 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023322a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/023322a0