The Jubilee of the Austrian Meteorological Centralanstalt

Abstract

TO celebrate the fiftieth year of the existence of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Earth's Magnetism, the Vienna Academy has published a jubilee volume,1 the contents of which form a very valuable contribution to science and an appropriate publication for this important celebration. This Central Institute, which is now the hub of all the meteorological and magnetic work carried on in the Austrian Empire, came into existence on July 23 in the year 1851, and it was founded with the object, first, of coordinating a number of stations all over the country and making them work on a uniform plan, and, second, of collecting such observations. How well these two objects have been carried out is familiar to every meteorologist of to-day, and so successful an issue of this organisation has been due to the consecutive labours of such directors as Kreil, Jelinek, Hann and Pernter, who have kept the Institute in such an excellent state of efficiency.