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permanent form a vast body of meteorological and climatological 

 material. In 1906, in commemoration of forty years of his editorship, 

 a special Harm Band of the Zeitschrift was issued. Two other major 

 publications are the Atlas der Meteorologie, forming Part III of the 

 Berghaus Physikalischer Atlas (1887) which was for years the standard 

 meteorological atlas of the world, and Die Erdc als Gauzes; ihre 

 Atmosphdre und Hydrosphdrc (1st edition, 1872; 3d edition 1880; 

 5th edition 1896). 



Hann was the recipient of many honors, and was made a member of 

 many learned societies, both in Europe and abroad. He was the first 

 foreigner to receive the Symon's Gold IVIedal of the Royal Meteoro- 

 logical Society (1904). 



Hann died in Vienna, October 1, 1921, in his eighty-third year. No 

 more fitting tribute could possibly be written of him than that con- 

 tained in the notice of his death sent out by his former colleagues in 

 Vienna. "Ein Leben ununterbrochener Geistesarbeit und reinster 

 Forschung im Dienste der Wissenschaft ist abgeschlossen. Aber 

 ungeziihlte Fader fiihren von Hann's Werken in alle Lander der Erde 

 und wirken in seinem Sinne fort." 



R. DeC. Ward. 



HENRY LEE HIGGINSON (1834-1919). 



Fellow in Class III, Section 4. 1912. 



The "Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson," by Professor Bliss 

 Perry, published in the autumn of 1921, affords so full and accessible 

 a record of the career and character of this Fellow of the Academy 

 that anything beyond a brief summary would be superfluous for the 

 present purpose. 



Two conspicuous anomalies in the life of so eminent a citizen of 

 Boston and son of Harvard were that he was born in New York 

 (November 18, 1834) and that he was a mem.ber of Harvard College 

 for only a few months in the freshman year of his class of 1855. He 

 was, however, of pure New England descent, and when he was in his 

 fourth year his family left New York and provided him with that 

 Boston background which he was to adorn for more than eighty years. 

 The brevity of his connection with Harvard, for which he was prepared 



