| Description | He wishes to broach an ambitious scheme. If the London Meteorological Office is regarded as the headquarters of the British Empire's meteorology, then its current location over a music shop and a sanitary shop does not set a good example. It would also be desirable to bring together meteorologists of Britain and the Commonwealth in estabishing an Imperial weather monthly journal, including synoptic charts. Shaw has talked it over with [John] Eliot, who is enthusiastic and his authorities approve. It would put an end to competition, rather than co-operation, between agencies, and it would be desirable to collect togther meteorological statistics. He thinks that all agencies should be housed together in one building to form a Meteorological Institute. He notes what would then be possible. The London County Council wished for advice on air quality in the capital and Shaw suggetss a laboratory dedicated to the purpose, dealing with the phsyics and chemistry of the air in London, and with a professor. Such a laboratory exists in Paris. Juxtaposing this with his Meteorological Institute idea, then it would 'enable British Meteorology to hold its head up again'. |