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Can Weather be Influenced by Artificial Means?

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SOME remarks on this subject made by the Rev. R. B. Belcher before the Geological Section of the British Association (reported in the Athenæum of October 29), reopen a question of popular meteorology, which has not, perhaps, been sufficiently attended to, from an exact and scientific point of view. Such evidence on the subject, as is at present available to the public, is too general to have much claim to correctness of detail on points which require particular and local information; and I offer the following abstract of it principally in the hope that it may lead to further inquiry and observation.

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LAUGHTON, J. Can Weather be Influenced by Artificial Means?. Nature 3, 306–307 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003306b0

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