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1883, at Vienna. For many years Kapeller's name Las been well known 

 among meteorologists in connection with the beautiful and precise in- 

 struments that have issued from his workshops, and which are widely 

 used, not only in Austria and Germany, but also in France, England, 

 Brazil, Turkey, and America. 



62. N. H. C. Hoffmeyer, born June 3, 1836, served as a military officer, 

 but resigned (18G6) on account of rheumatism, since which time he has 

 devoted his life to meteorology. In 1872 he founded the Meteorological 

 Institute of Denmark. He died suddenly on the IGth of February, 1884. 

 (7). M. Z., I, p. 88.) 



63. Prof. Hugo von Schoder, born aSTovember 11, 183G, became di- 

 rector of the meteorological stations at Wlirtemberg in 18G5, and 

 died April 11, 1884. {D. M. Z., i, p. 171.) 



64. Prof. Dr. George von Boguslawski, born at Breslau, December 

 7, 1827, died May 4, 1884, at Berlin. Since 1874 as the editor of the 

 Annalen or Hydrograplmclie Mittheilungen, and for many years as secre- 

 tary of the Berlin Geographical Association, he has done an important 

 work for Germany. 



65. Peter Merian. On February 8, 1883, this honored man died at 

 an advanced age in Basle. His life has been given to the advance of 

 Switzerland in many scientific directions. In 182G as a member of the 

 Swiss Society of Naturalists he began a series of meteorological obser- 

 vations at Basle, which he did not relinquish until fifty years later. 

 {Z. 0. G. 3L, xviii, p. 467.) 



66. Prof. A. H. Guyot, born at Neuchatel, September 28, 1807, died at 

 Princeton, X. J., February, 1884. His investigations on the glaciers, 

 bis hypsometric work in the United States, his meteorological tables, 

 and other instructions to observers for the Smithsonian Institution, his 

 works on physical geography and climate, have made his name well 

 known in meteorology. 



67. Thomas Plant, who has maintained uniform meteorological records 

 for forty-four years at Birmingham, England, died September, 1883, 

 aged sixty-four. 



II.— (rt) General treatises, Meteorology, Climatology, Phys- 

 ics, History; (h) Instruction; (c) Weather predictions and 

 verifications. 



68. Prof. J. Hann has published, as one of the series of Allgemeine 

 Erdkunde, a volume on The Earth as a Planet (Weltkorjjer), which is 

 obtainable in separate form. This volume is rich in recent results of 

 physical study ; the form of the earth, the force of gravitation, the mag- 

 netic phenomena and auroras, and the atmosphere and glacial climate 

 and the ocean are especially well treated. 



69. li. H. Scott has compiled an Elementary Meteorology, which has 

 also been translated into German by W. von Freeden and simultane- 

 ously published at Leipsic. It is divided into two portions, the first 



