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I HAVE read with much interest your article of the 11th inst. on the results obtained by simultaneous observations in the meteorological observatories at the base and at the summit of Ben Nevis. Ben Nevis rises to a height of only 4370 feet above the sea, and yet we find that the comparison of these observations gives results of a kind that could not be obtained from any number of stations all on the same level. Might we not hope for still more valuable results from similar observatories placed at the base and the summit of Etna and Teneriffe? Etna is 10,870 feet high, and Teneriffe 12,200. These would he better than any Alpine stations, because of their perfect isolation.
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MURPHY, J. High and Low Level Meteorological Observatories. Nature 44, 7 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044007b0
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