Aerial Navigation and Meteorology

Abstract

PROF, VAN EVERDINGEN'S outspoken criticism in NATURE of July 22, p. 637, of the meteorological arrangements outlined in Annexe G of the Convention for International Air Navigation is very welcome. Prior to the war the International Meteorological Committee met every three years in friendly gatherings for social intercourse and the transaction of business. Broadly speaking, the difficulties of the members were in obtaining sufficient funds to enable them, in their! respective services, to achieve the ends upon which they were agreed rather than in securing agreement on the desiderata for international exchange. Now that the former difficulties have been largely met as a result of the achievements of meteorology in the war, it would be calamitous if meteorologists failed to overcome the latter, and disturbed the unity of European meteoro-logy at a time when their efforts ought to be directed to achieving unity in world-meteorology.