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I HAVE just read the note on p. 87 of your issue of November 28 last giving an abstract of the “Summary of the Climate of the British Empire” in Symons' Meteorological Magazine; and I think that even though it is expressly said to be only “so far as it can be represented by reports for eighteen stations,” such a summary is misleading. Thus, Adelaide is given as having the highest shade temperature, absolutely ignoring the fact that Lahore, with a population 50 per cent, more than Adelaide, has a maximum shade temperature for a month or more at a time rarely falling below 116°, and often well over 120°; while in Jacobabad, a much less important place, it is true, but still a garrison town, the maximum shade temperature in June and July is more often over 120° than under it.
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SILBERRAD, C. Extremes of Climate in the British Empire. Nature 65, 299 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065299c0
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