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THE complaint is sometimes made that meteorologists are piling up more routine observations than they can find leisure to discuss. This is but a half-truth; in some matters discussion has outrun observation, and meteorology, having insufficient material of its own, has to requisition the data of other sciences. This is particularly so in the study of periodicities; instrumental readings are mostly of too recent a date to provide adequate material, but fortunately Nature herself has provided several long series of autographic records which show the variation of the seasons over many centuries. The deciphering of these natural records is not always simple, and they need to be expounded by their experts, who in turn may be glad of the guidance of meteorologists. To assist discussion, the Carnegie Institution in Washington has on several occasions organised a “Symposium on Climatic Cycles”, and the report of the third of these has recently appeared.
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Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 19, pp. 346–383, March 15, 1933.
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B., C. The Study of Weather Cycles. Nature 132, 193–194 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132193a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132193a0