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THE first Memoir of what is to be known as the British East African Meteorological Service, from the pen of its director, Mr. A. Walter, formerly director of the Royal Alfred Observatory, Mauritius, has recently been received. This merhoir describes the circumstances leading up to the inauguration of a joint meteorological service for British East African territories. The money for the undertaking is to be contributed by the Governments of Egypt, the Sudan and Zanzibar, and those of the East African colonies Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Northern Rhodesia; the Egyptian Government is intimately concerned with the acquisition of meteorological information from the East African uplands, the rainfall of which controls the Nile flow, and not inappropriately makes the largest financial contribution. For many years records of rainfall and temperature have been collected by the agricultural departments of Kenya, Uganda, and Zanzibar, and Tanganyika possessed a fully organised meteorological service when under German rule.
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Meteorology in British East Africa. Nature 124, 283–284 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124283b0
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