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THE French Minister of War has invited the Paris Academy of Sciences to advise as to the precautions to be adopted in selecting and planting trees in the neighbourhood of powder magazines, in order to secure the best protection from lightning.

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Notes . Nature 62, 373–377 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062373a0

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