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WE have received the first three volumes of a new series of meteorological publications that is being issued by the India Meteorological Department, entitled “Scientific Notes.” We suppose that this publication will correspond with the “Professional Notes” of the Meteorological Office, London, and if this be the case it will be valuable in that it will place on permanent record contributions to meteorology which, though not always of the first rank in importance, afford collectively a useful body of information, the reliability of which is to some extent vouched for by the issuing authority—-in the case of the series under review, presumably the Director General of Observatories in India. The only serious drawback of publications of this kind, as compared with similar papers read before a scientific society, appears to be that no discussion of the validity of the conclusions is published with them and the general reader can form little idea, in those cases where novel views are brought forward, as to whether or no a definite advance has been made.
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Meteorology in India. Nature 123, 698 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123698a0
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