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THE first edition of this interesting pamphlet was dealt with in a note in our issue of April 22, 1909 (vol. Ixxx., p. 228), and we welcome this second edition as indicating that increased attention is being directed to the important matter of protecting buildings from damage by lightning. Mr. Hands, who has expert knowledge of the subject, says that investigation shows that about twenty churches are struck and damaged in Great Britain every year. In some years the number is much greater; in 1907, for instance, thirty-nine suffered from this cause, and in 1908 there were thirty-one. Architects and others, whose business makes them responsible for the protection of buildings against lightning, would do well to study this little work.
Lightning and the Churches.
By Alfred Hands. Second edition. Pp. 92. (London: J. W. Gray and Son, 1910.) Price 1s. net.
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Lightning and the Churches . Nature 84, 238 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084238b0
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