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As result of his enquiries the Director recommended the purchase of the following outfit:-
Two theodolites.
Ten Dines Meteorographs.
One Microscope for measuring meteorograms.
Ten hygrometers.
400 Pilot balloons.
Two Manheim slide rules.
Calibrating outfit for meteorographs.
The Hongkong Government however were unable to sanction the appointment of the Professional Assistant and Mechanic necessary for carrying out a programme of upper air research with the above instruments, and requested the Director to amend his recommendations accordingly. This was done by omitting the meteorographs, microscope and calibrating outfit. The remaining items were sanctioned, and ordered through the London Meteorological Office in August. They have not yet been received.
Sir Napier Shaw wrote to the Director as follows:-
I cannot find that there is any immediate prospect of developing air routes on the line of which Hongkong will lie. It is quite clear that if routes were to be developed between Japan and Australia or between India and Japan, Hongkong would be a centre of information of the most vital importance, but I am not aware that projects of that kind are being actively prosecuted. We have therefore to deal with the general meteorological importance of the position of Hongkong and of that there can be no question, and what will be useful for aviation when it materialises will be in the meantime useful for the study of cyclones and other atmospheric visitations of Hongkong. While therefore I cannot say that aviators will forthwith claim your assistance, meteorologists will look to you as the natural centre of information for the region between Calcutta and the Philippines and between the equator and latitude 50°.
It is very desirable that you should be equipped with means of exploration of the upper air and provided with facilities for acquiring information from a network of stations in the region specified.
X.-MISCELLANEOUS.
Seismograph Installation.-When on leave of absence the Director visited the Oxford University Observatory to confer with Professor Turner, Chairman of the Seismological Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, on the subject of a seismograph outfit for Hongkong.
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As result of his enquiries the Director recommended the purchase of the following outfit:-
Two theodolites.
Ten Dines Meteorographs.
One Microscope for measuring meteorograms.
Ten hygrometers.
400 Pilot balloons.
Two Manheim slide rules.
Calibrating outfit for meteorographs.
The Hongkong Government however were unable to sanction the appointment of the Professional Assistant and Mechanic neces- sary for carrying out a programme of upper air research with the above instruments, and requested the Director to amend his recom- mendations accordingly. This was done by omitting the meteoro- graphs, microscope and calibrating outfit. The remaining items were sanctioned, and ordered through the London Meteorological Office in August. They have not yet been received.
Sir Napier Shaw wrote to the Director as follows:-
I cannot find that there is any immediate prospect of developing air routes on the line of which Hongkong will lie. It is quite clear that if routes were to be developed between Japan and Australia or between India and Japan, Hongkong would be a centre of information of the most vital importance, but I am not aware that projects of that kind are being actively prosecuted. We have therefore to deal with the general meteorological importance of the position of Hongkong and of that there can be no question, and what will be useful for aviation when it materialises will be in the meantime useful for the study of cy- clones and other atmospheric visitations of Hongkong. While therefore I cannot say that aviators will forthwith claim your assistance, meteorologists will look to you as the natural centre of information for the region between Calcutta and the Philippines and between the equator and latitude 50°.
It is very desirable that you should be equipped with means of exploration of the upper air and provided with facilities for acquifing information from a network of stations in the region specified.
X.-MISCELLANEOUS.
Seismograph Installation.-When on leave of absence the Director visited the Oxford University Observatory to confer with Professor Turner, Chairman of the Seismological Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, on the subject of a seismograph outfit for Hongkong.
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