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THE annual report of the director of the Meteorological Office for the year ending March 31, 1936 (H.M. Stationery Office, Is. net), describes'the work done by that Office in its eighty-first year. Military operations are now so dependent upon the help of organized meteorology that an atmosphere of suspicion, merely, between European nations causes repercussions that affect the development of meteorology. In the year under review the Royal Air Force expanded: the Meteorological Office did likewise. Early in October 1935, an Overseas Division was formed to deal with Empire air routes, including the projected trans-Atlantic routes and the Empire air mail scheme. In addition, new stations were opened during the year at Aden, Khartoum and Gibraltar. As additional trained staff could not at once be produced to meet the emergency, the staff at headquarters and some out-stations in Great Britain had to be drawn on for service abroad, in spite of the general increase of work at home, which was augmented by the decision to carry out the scheme of grading and pay recommended by the Committee on the Staffs of Government Scientific Establishments presided over by Sir Harold Carpenter. These activities were not, however, allowed to prevent proper attention being given to two important conferences, the Empire Conference of August 1935 held in London and the International Conference of the following month in Warsaw. The Empire Conference met for discussion of research; the subjects for discussion were set out in sixty-eight memoranda. The International Conference was a gathering of directors of meteorological services, which among other achievements arrived at a . uniform system of construction of synoptic weather maps—a valuable aid to international co-operation. The year's changes included also the setting up of an Overseas Division and the introduction in the official library on January 1, 1936, of a revised classification of meteorological literature based on that employed by the International Institute for. Documentation.
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Work of the Meteorological Office. Nature 138, 1048 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381048b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1381048b0