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quent utterances were heard, marked him as the Arago and Brewster 

 of Germany. For more than a quarter of a century his audiences were 

 among the largest and most accomplished in the great hall of the Ber- 

 lin University, overcrowded as it was by students and scholars of all 

 ages and from all stations in society and in the army, Germany show- 

 ered on him in profusion those honors which it but sparingly bestows 

 except on the highest order of learning and science ; and other coun- 

 tries amply recognized the successive results of Dove's masterly re- 

 searches ; there is scarcely a learned or scientific society of any note 

 that has not his name enrolled among its honorary members. The 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences elected him, in 1837, one of its youngest 

 members ; and in 1845 he was raised to the distinguished position of 

 the chair of Physics in the University of Berlin, now held by his suc- 

 cessor Professor Helmholtz.* When Alexander von Humboldt died. 

 May 6, 1869, the insignia of the high order pour le merite, worn by 

 him, were bestowed upon Dove ; and in 1867 he was chosen Vice- 

 Chancellor of that most exalted rank for scientific achievement in Ger- 

 many. 



It would far surpass the limit allotted to this brief sketch to enter in 

 detail upon the scientific labors and works of Dove ; his scientific pa- 

 pers published in the memoirs of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, in 

 Poggendorf 's " Annalen," in " Zeitschrif t f ilr Erdkunde," in " Zeit- 

 schrift des Preussischen Statistischen Bureau's," etc., between the years 

 1827 and 1876 number more than two hundred and fifty, besides his 

 lai'ger published works and treatises, of which the most noted are : 



" tJber Maas und Messen," 1835 ; " Meteorologische Untersuchun- 

 gen," 1837 ; " tJber die Nichtperiodischen Veranderungen der Tempera- 

 tur-Vertheilung auf der Oberflache der Erde," 6 vols., 1840-1859 ; " Un- 

 tersuchungen im Gebiete der Inductions Electricitat," 1843 ; " Uber 

 den Zusammenhang der Warme- Veranderungen der Atmosphare mit 

 der Entwicklung der Pflanzen," 1846 ; " Temperaturtaf eln," 1848 ; 

 "Uber Electricitat," 1848; "Monats Isothermen," 1850; "Verbrei- 

 tung der Warme auf der Erdoberflache durch Isothermen und Isano- 

 malen," 1852 ; " Darstellung der Farbenlehre," 1853 ; " Monats-und 

 Jahres Isothermen in der Polarprojection," 1864 ; " Darstellung der 

 Wiirme-Erscheinungen durch fiinftiigige Mittel," 3 vols., 1856-1870 ; 

 " Die Witterungs-Erscheinungen des nordlichen Deutschlands," 1858- 

 1803 ; " Das Gesetz der Stiirme," 1857 ; " Optische Studien," 1859 ; 

 " Anwendung des Stereoscopes zur Erkennung falschen Papier Geldes," 

 1859 ; " Die Stiirme der gemaessigten Zone," 1863 ; " Klimatologische 

 Beitrage," 2 vols., 1857-1869 ; " Klimatologie von Nord Deutschland," 

 2 vols., 1868-1871 ; " Eiszeit, Fohn und Sirocco," 1867 ; " Der schwei- 

 zerische Fohn," 1868 ; " Der Kreislauf des Wassers auf der Erde," 

 1868 ; " Gedachtnissrede auf Alexander von Humboldt," 1869, etc. 



They show Dove to have been a most thorough and successful 

 * "Popular Science Monthly," vol. v., p. 231. 



