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LIEUT. WEYPRECHT informs us, with reference to his proposed scientific expedition to Novaya Zemlya that the statements which have appeared are very inaccurate, nothing having as yet been decided. He and Count Wilczek certainly intend to go there and make one year's thorough scientific observation in some place on the northern coast; special attention will be given to cosmical physics. They would prefer, however, if in other places of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, others would make observations simultaneous with them. Before the war broke out they had the best hopes of seeing their proposals nearly everywhere accepted, but the disturbed state of Europe during the last two years has prevented them from taking further steps. In April the International Meteorological Congress, which was to have met in 1877, will meet in Rome. One of the questions to be decided there will be, in what manner the Congress can contribute to the realisation of the proposals of Count Wilczek and Lieut Weyprecht. On the decision come to at that meeting will theirs mainly depend. The programme which it is intended to carry out will be found described in NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 29.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 19, 372–373 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019372b0
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