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YEARS ago, under the vigorous direction of the late Prof. Schmidt, the Athens Observatory acquired a distinction that was denied to some kindred institutions more favoured with instrumental equipment and substantial endowment. Since that time evil days have fallen on the National Observatory of Greece and its record of useful work has been broken; but it is now a pleasant task to record that a period of renewed activity appears likely to make itself felt in the future conduct of this ancient centre of scientific work. The third volume of the “Annales,” which has just appeared, devoted mainly to meteorological and climatic inquiries, is perhaps of a modest character viewed from a scientific standpoint; but it shows that the present director, M. Eginitis, is alive to the importance of creating a broader scientific interest throughout the country, which may be productive of greater energy and lead to the establishment of a well-supported institution. If this be the intention of the director, the means he has employed are excellent. For M. Eginitis has endeavoured to interest a number of the better instructed class, such as civil engineers, professors of mathematics in the colleges and schoolmasters, in meteorological and seismological inquiries, and has induced the Government to provide a simple instrumental equipment at stations where it could be properly employed. The result is that he has distributed throughout Greece and the Ionian Isles a number of centres whence climatic observations are regularly forwarded to the central observatory at Athens and there reduced.
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Work at the Athens Observatory 1 . Nature 66, 331–332 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066331b0
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