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WE have read carefully and with great pleasure the Memoirs of the Science Department of the University of Tokio, Japan, vol. iii. Part i., which gives the report of the meteorology of Tokio for 1879, by Prof T. C. Mendenhall. The observations, which are carried on in the west wing of the small observatory attached to the University, were commenced in January 1879, and this is the first report issued by the Observatory. The instruments are from Negretti and Zambra, and, with the exception of the thermometers, they appear to have been placed in suitable positions. The thermometers are mounted outside the north window of the second floor, and are separated from the observing room by glass doors, which are opened for observation. This position of the thermometer is in several respects objectionable but particularly as it precludes any comparability, beyond a rough one, between the temperature observations at Tokio and at other stations which are or may be established in Japan.
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Meteorology in Japan . Nature 22, 342–343 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022342a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/022342a0