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THE India Meteorological Department has recently given in a number of its Meteorological Memoirs (vol. xx., pert i.) “an account of the preparations made for determining the conditions of the upper air in India by means of kites.” The Government of India, acting on a strong recommendation by the Royal Society, about three years ago sanctioned the inclusion of the exploration of the middle and higher atmosphere by means of kites and balloons as a part of the scheme of operations of the Meteorological Department. Two officers were deputed to Germany to study the methods employed by the Aeronautische Observatorium des Königlich Preussischen Meteorologischen Instituts. The first part of the memoir gives a description of the instruments employed, and the results obtained from the first preliminary ascents. The place selected for these was in Lower Sind, about six miles W.N.W. of Karachi, a mile from the sea and ten miles from the Hala Range on the west, forming the boundary between Lower Sind and Baluchistan.
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Meteorological Kites in India . Nature 74, 448 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074448a0
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