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IN NATURE (vol. xxv. p. 368) you give information about a system of observations and storm-warnings about to be started in the China seas. The scheme itself is excellent, and the choice of Zi-ka-wei (not Siccawei) is also good, only I may express a doubt as to the success of the storm-warnings till a greater area is included. As to the winter-storms, some stations in the north-west of China are necessary, and even Kiakhta and Irkutsk would be more useful than Vladivostok, for example, as depressions coming from the west will be earlier felt there than in China. As to the typhoons, as they certainly originate east from China, and first travel to the west, telegraphic warnings from Formosa and the Liu-kiu islands would be necessary, otherwise they are apt to reach the coast of China too suddenly. With a chain of stations on these islands between China and Japan it would be possible to observe typhoons at or very near to their origin, to follow them step by step, and save an immense quantity of life and property. A telegraph line uniting these islands to China and Japan is certainly a large undertaking, but as the Japanese will derive great benefit from it, they will probably take part of the expenses.
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WOEIKOF, A. A System of Meteorological Observations in the China Seas. Nature 25, 410 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025410c0
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