There  are  282  stations  attached  to  the  institute,  of
which  107  are  rainfall  stations.  Thirty-one  of  the
stations  are  in  the  colonies  of  Faroe,  Iceland,  and
Greenland.  Weather  forecasting  is  undertaken  and
the  percentage  of  success  is  %2,  Many  investiga-
tions have  been  published.  The  amount  of  Uie
government  grant  is  about  $22,000.
France, — Tlie  Meteorological  Service  of  France
was  established  in  1855  as  a  special  branch  of  the
observatory  of  Paris,  and  was  constituted  a  sepa-
rate service  in  1878.  The  stations  attached  to  the
service  number  2^236,  and  comprise  12  first  order,
5  mountain  stations,  183  second  order,  and  2,036
third  order.  Forecasts  are  issued,  and  for  1897  a
large  percentage  of  success,  viz.,  91,  was  claimed.
Numerous  investigations  have  been  undertake;
the  expense  of  the  service  is  about  $40,000.
German  Empire, — In  the  German  Bmpire  there  is
a  very  extensive  system  of  cooperation  between
several  nearly  independent  meteorological  services,
the  principal  ones  being  those  of  Hamburg,  Prus-
sia, Saxony  and  Baden.  The  Hamburg  service  is
the  imperial  system  of  the  Empire,  and  manages
marine  meteorology,  storm  warnings  and  fore-
casts. There  are  several  thousand  stations  con-
nected with  the  different  services.  Weather  fore-
casts are  made  only  to  a  limited  extent,  except  in
the  Hamburg  service,  and  even  there  no  estunate  of
the  percentage  of  success  can  be  given.  Numtfons
publications  are  issued,  and  they  generally  contain
the  results  of  some  very  interesting  investigations.
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No  estimates  of  the  costs  to  the  governments  are
at  hand,  as  many  of  the  expenses  are  borne  by  the
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