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The first annual report of the German Hydrographic Institute, Hamburg, consists of a 64-page booklet both in German and English (the former language being that of the official text). It gives a good account of the provision which has been made in Germany since the War for the performance of the various tasks formerly undertaken by the organisation which was the German analogue of the Hydrographic Department of the British Admiralty. Along with that account, which tells of work to do with marine surveying, the making and printing of nautical charts, the issue of nautical books, the testing of compasses, the observation and publication of magnetic values, the issue of time signals, and with many other matters concerning which information is needed by mariners and required by the naval side of the Allied occupying authority, there is substantial information bearing upon the present state of German oceanography.
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German Hydrographic Institute, Hamburg. Nature 160, 705 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160705b0
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