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I NOTICE that in NATURE of February 15 your reviewer quotes without comment a passage from “Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids and Polyzoa” (Fauna of British India Series) which implies that winter in India is the driest time of the year as well as the coolest. This must be a slip on the part of the author. Not only is there a considerable quantity of water in rivers, tanks, and pools in winter compared with the spring and early summer, but the relative humidity is very much higher. In cases where I have collected figures the mean relative humidity is at about the average of the whole year in December and January, and then drops continually up to the first half of May, but it would doubtless vary in different parts of the country.
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H., H. Winter in India. Nature 89, 168 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089168b0
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