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knowledge of weather maps and actual meteorology, with a knowl- 

 edge of the present status of mathematics. But it is evident that 

 mathematical analysis is as yet scarcely able to cope with the real 

 problems of meteorology. These authors have therefore generally 

 treated only the simplified problems idealized from nature, whereas 

 apparently we need mathematicians of the highest genius, who 

 shall devise new methods applicable to the complex conditions 

 that control the atmosphere. It is such a mathematician as this 

 that we had in mind in recomniending that three persons, of whom 

 the mathematician should be cliief . be entrusted with the conduct 

 of the division of meteorology. 



Respectfully subtnitted, 



Cleveland Abbe, 



Chairman. 

 July 14^ 1902. 



