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So much of Dove as an original investigator and scholar. As pro- 

 fessor at the Berlin University he accomplished more than one hun- 

 dred lecture terms (Semester), and among the many thousands who 

 have been instructed and inspired by his masterly and impressive lec- 

 tures and occasional orations, most of the eminent physicists of our 

 generation and the scientists of Germany may be counted, who all will 

 remember with pleasure and veneration the great teacher's exquisite 

 style, his humor and wit, the lucidity and precision of his logic and 

 demonstration, and the elegance and perfection of his experiments. 

 Pie did not address himself to beginners, but presupposed the full 

 intellectual maturity and learning of the German gymnasium educa- 

 tion, and his audiences were composed of men of every age and of the 

 highest stations of society. Dove was also for years Professor of 

 Physics at the Military and the Polytechnic Academies of Berlin, and 

 a member of the highest boards of the Prussian Government for state 

 examinations in the various branches of civil and military vocations. 

 Governments, learned institutions, and societies from many countries 

 resorted to him as the highest authority. 



The celebration of Dove's fiftieth year of his Doctorate in Philoso- 

 phy, March 4, 18T6, was the occasion of well-deserved felicitations 

 from all parts of Germany, from the people and Government, and 

 from institutions and seats of science and learning. The feeling was 

 general that the fifty years of Dove's active life in a very large degree 

 represented and I'eflected the recent history of physics, and of mete- 

 orology and climatology in particular. Congratulations and honors 

 poured in upon the veteran savant from all parts of the civilized 

 globe, as his name and fame were well known, and his labors and 

 achievements are still of inestimable value on all continents and to the 

 mariner on the seas. Three years later, after a protracted illness, Dove 

 passed peacefully away on the 4th of April, 1879, in the seventy-sixth 

 year of his age, one of Germany's greatest and most gifted naturalists 

 and teachers of the present century. 



