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IN your No. of Feb. 16, there is a letter from Mr. Laughton on the Artificial Production of Rains, which is worthy of notice from a strictly scientific point of view. I have little doubt that rains have been in comparatively rare cases caused by large fires. We may dismiss from our minds the idea that rains can be produced, even when the conditions are favourable, by all the powder that is burnt during a battle on land or sea. It is said that βin a problem of this nature, negative examples have more weight than positive.β But it is surely more philosophical to hold that the one class of instances is as valuable as the other. If rains have sometimes been produced by fires, it is as well to try to eliminate the conditions under which they occur as in those cases in which they do not occur.
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RUSSELL, R. Rain produced by Fires. Nature 3, 448 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003448c0
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