Abstract
THE fourth annual report of the Director of the Meteorological Service of the Government of Iraq, for the year ending March 31, 1940, deals with a period during which a variety of causes operated to increase the difficulties in the way of the orderly development of this infant service (Government of Iraq: Ministry of Defence: Meteorological Service. Annual Report of the Director, No. 4: Year ending 31st March 1940. Pp. 30. Baghdad: Government Press, 1940). Measures taken in previous years to provide the most efficient service of information about the existing and anticipated weather on the various air routes of civil aviation “blossomed and bore fruit towards the end of the year”, to quote the report, an achievement which practically coincided in time with a reduced demand for such information resulting from reduced civil aviation on account of the War. In addition there were the minor disturbances of continuity arising from the transfer of the service from the administrative control of the Officer Commanding the Royal Iraq Air Force to the Director of Civil Aviation and from a change of directorship, although the latter did not occur until the fourth day of the last month of the period covered by the report, when Mr. J. S. Farquharson relieved Mr. J. Durward, the first full–time director.
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The Iraq Meteorological Service. Nature 148, 79–80 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148079d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148079d0