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ABSTRACT WE publish in our correspondence columns this week a translation of a letter from Prof. F. M. Exner, director of the Central Meteorological and Geodynamic Institute at Vienna, and
Prof. J. Hann, the former director, appealing for financial aid to enable the institute to carry on the valuable work it has done for meteorology for the past seventy years, and to continue
its publications. Already, both in Great Britain and in the United States, funds have been provided for meeting the personal needs of meteorologists in Vienna who were without the
necessaries of life, but meteorologists are not, as a rule, wealthy men, and they cannot do much more than they have done. Other scientific workers have probably approached much the same
limit of their capacity to help. While, therefore, we commend the appeal to our readers, we think it would be difficult for private benefactors to provide the means for carrying on the work
of the institute. A much more promising course to urge is that some part of the credits made to Austria by England and France should be ear-marked for the maintenance of essential scientific
services. We suggest that the Royal Society or the Royal Meteorological Society should take steps with the object of securing support of this kind for the Meteorological Institute at
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