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Wild, then director of the Russian Meteorological Service (but now of 

 Zurich), to set us a pattern of what a meteorological observatory should 

 be, in the Pawlowsk Observatory near St. Petersburg. 



It has been found by experience that the services of three thoroughly 

 trained and skilled persons are necessary to properly conduct a meteoro- 

 logical observatory. It is the verbal testimony of Dr. Wild that it is 

 better to do entirely without the records of self-registering instruments 

 than to have the records made under the care of untrained and incom- 

 petent persons. 



A. Lawkenxe Rotch. 



In the United States there long existed an apparent indifference to 

 the demand for numerous continuous atmosjDheric records, the winds 

 alone receiving the merited attention (except in an experimental way) 

 from our Signal Service organization. A single exception to this 

 indifference was the Central Park Observatory, which was operating 

 unobtrusively along the right lines, but after the stereotyped manner of 

 the older European observatories. For the rest we were mainly content 

 with the observations made at fixed intervals during the day. 



