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bearing recording instruments and sending down 

 their wires data of temperature, wind pressure, 

 moisture, and those electrical changes that herald 

 storms and general disturbances. When we know 

 the probable ice crop of the Greenland plateaux 

 the amount of moisture gathering in the uplands 

 of Thibet and the Himalayas, and such things 

 at present impossible, we shall be able to construct 

 real weather charts, and when every weather 

 centre on the planet has its observer there is no 

 reason why accurate presentments should not 

 be made weeks and months ahead. 



Even whole seasons may be known. After all, 

 why not? On the large scale we are influenced 

 by known conditions, largely electrical, governed 

 or heralded principally by sun spots, and when 

 we can read them aright we shall have the key 

 to a wider knowledge. Reports are taken, I believe, 

 on all British vessels at mid-day, wherever they 

 are, a record is kept and forwarded when possible 

 to the head office of the direction and force of the 

 wind, state of clouds, temperature of air and water, 

 direction and rate of ocean currents and so on, 

 all of which are valuable, but when every ship 

 afloat has wireless, as they soon must, and trans- 

 mits at a given time its record to headquarters, 

 we shall be nearing our desired haven. 



Wireless of course was the great step, the 



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