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The Bermuda Oceanographical Station

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THE British Government has decided to grant a sum of money in order to establish and carry on for a period of five years an oceano graphical station in the Bermuda Islands. The management of the station has been vested in a Committee, of which I have the honour to be chairman, nominated by the Royal Society, and hence it seemed appropriate that I should endeavour to give to readers of NATURE an account of the reasons which led to the decision to found the station and the objects which it is hoped to attain by its activity.

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MacBride, E. The Bermuda Oceanographical Station. Nature 139, 948–951 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139948a0

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