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Four vears after he became Director, Mr. Davis was married in 

 Boston (December 4, 1889) to Mabel Quincy, who was his constant 

 companion during the remainder of his hfe in an unusually happy 

 marriage. 



Under Mr. Davis's able leadership, the Argentine Meteorological 

 Service attained a position in the very front rank of government 

 meteorological organizations. When he resigned his post, to secure 

 well-deserved rest and to seek to regain his health in his own country, 

 the Argentine service extended over an area of nearly 3,000 miles in a 

 north-and-south line, its southernmost station being in the South 

 Orkney Islands, in latitude 60°43' south. Over 2,000 stations were 

 then cooperating in the work of taking meteorological and magnetic 

 observations. The morning and evening observations from nearly 

 200 stations were being used in the construction of the dail^^ weather 

 map, in addition to the daily rainfall records from about 1,350 rainfall 

 stations. 



The development of meteorological work under Mr. Davis was rapid 

 and many-sided. In 1885, the year in which he became director, the 

 Meteorological Office (Oficina Meteorologica Argentina) was made a 

 separate organization, and its headquarters were moved from the 

 Astronomical Observatory to a larger and better building, especially 

 constructed for the purpose on the grounds immediately adjoining. 

 In 1901 the central office was moved to Buenos Aires, where the tele- 

 graphic and other facilities for the preparation of a daily weather map, 

 publication of which was begun on February 21, 1902, were much 

 greater than at Cordoba. A hydrometric section was established in 

 1902; a magnetic section and a forecasting service in 1904; a rainfall 

 service in 1912, and a system of weekly, or longer, forecasts in 1915. 

 The section of climatic statistics has continued to have its headquarters 

 at Cordoba, where it collects and compiles climatological data, main- 

 tains a first-class observatory, and is carrying on researches in agri- 

 cultural meteorology. 



Mr. Davis was a tremendously keen, active and progressive director. 

 He was not only an unusually efficient executive officer, but he was also 

 a man of wide learning and of a great variety of interests. Both as 

 director, and as a man, he had the respect and loyal devotion of all his 

 associates and employees. He was always well abreast of the times, 

 and often was a pioneer in keeping ahead of the times. Not content 



