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THERE is a perpetual struggle between the advocates of continuity and of uniformity in such matters as meteorological observations. For a network of official stations under a central authority, the results of which have to be co-ordinated, uniformity is of very great importance. On the other hand, experiments with different methods are much less likely to be discouraged in an independent observatory, the work of which has a value of a totally different kind. In such a place continuity has a special significance, and it is refreshing to meet with a volume of data from a station that has been on the same site for fifty years, even though that site was criticised very soon after the beginning of the period.
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B., W. Meteorological Observations at Calcutta1. Nature 105, 55 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105055a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105055a0