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ON May 7 the Academy of Sciences adopted in its secret meeting the draft of a letter to M. Bardoux, the Minister for Public Instruction, asking him to state whether he was to establish a separate administration for meteorology or continue the existing system. The answer to this was considered as an essential preliminary to the selection of the candidates for the directorship of the Paris Observatory. The candidates have not been nominated yet, but a definite answer has bsen given to the Academy of Sciences. The decree organising the meteorological division of the observatory into a distinct service was signed by the president on the 13th and gazetted on the 14th. It is prefaced by a summary of the several steps taken by Leverrier (whose name has been carefully omitted) to give the meteorological organisation its existing form.
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ORGANISATION OF FRENCH METEOROLOGY . Nature 18, 96 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018096b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/018096b0