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A NEW quarterly journal entitled Bioklimatische Beibldtter der Meteorologischen Zeitschrift made its appearance last year. It is a joint production of the German and Austrian Meteorological Societies, and is edited by Drs. W. Schmidt of Vienna and F. Linke of Frankfort a. M. A specimen number (Band 1, Heft 3) has been received from Dr. Schmidt. It sets out to deal with observations made in such a way as to represent the climates actually experienced by various living organisms; in other words, to portray the so-called micro-climates. Micro-climatology is a comparatively new subject, and one which has a scope that is great in proportion as there are innumerable problems of a biological nature to which it has some application. Among the papers in this specimen copy is one by F. Steinhauser which is a good example of micro-climatology: it is a study of the special temperature conditions which the dwellers in large towns experience out of doors, conditions which are different from those prevailing in neighbouring open country, and which are of biological importance to the people concerned. Another paper, by W. Kiihnelt, deals with the general significance of climate for the animal kingdom. These are both largely surveys of work done by those engaged on those special questions; in another, by Dr. Linke, one of the editors, a brief survey is given of the pioneer work of W. F. Tyler on the psychological effects of various degrees of relative humidity combined with high temperature, founded on studies made in Shanghai, from which Tyler drew lines of equal discomfort termed ‘hythers' on a temperature and relative humidity diagram.
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Micro-Climatology. Nature 136, 61 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136061a0
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