390 HEINRICH WILUELM DOVE. 



Stiirme " passed through four editions in Germany, and was trans- 

 lated into English and French. " Klimatologie von Nord Deutsch- 

 land * appeared in two volumes in 1868-71 ; the " Klimatologische 

 Beitrage," in two parts, in 1859-67 ; the " Meteorologische Unter- 

 suehungen," in 1837; " Ueber Maass und Messen," two editions, in 

 1833 and 1835 ; " Der Kreislauf des Wassers auf der Oberflache des 

 Erde," in 1866, and a translation in 1871 ; " Eiszeit, Fohn, und Si- 

 rocco," in 1867; ''Der Schweizerische Fohn," in 1868; " Gediicht- 

 nissrede auf von Humboldt," in 1869. Some of his most important 

 works were translated and published in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, 

 and in a volume of the British Association for 1853. Dove was also 

 the editor or co-editor of eight volumes of " Eepertorium der Physik, 

 1837-45," to which he largely contributed. • 



In 1838 Dove published "Die neuere Farbenlehre," which reached 

 a second enlarged edition in 1853, with a somewhat different title. 

 In this book he gives an account of his own original observations and 

 instruments. He repeats in the preface to the second edition his com- 

 ments on Goethe's criticism of Newton's theory of colors : " For the 

 history of science shows that, notwithstanding the confirmation which 

 observation has given to the wave theory, there never will be want- 

 ing, in all time, those to whom the Jesuit Castel is a greater authority 

 than Huyghens, Newton, Fresnel, and Frauenhofer." 



Dove was happy in his home. Of four sons and as many daugh- 

 ters, one, a lieutenant in the army, died in 1874 of consumption, in- 

 duced by the fatigues and exposure of war. Two of his sons he saw 

 elevated to the position of Professors at Gottingen and at Breslau. 

 He himself rejoiced in his work, and none the less in society. In the 

 forenoon, when he was not teaching, he was at his house, and acces- 

 sible to all. In the afternoon he made a short visit to a confection-' 

 er's shop, where he read the papers and took a cup of coffee. But 

 travelling was his chief recreation. His knowledge of modern lan- 

 guages made all societies agreeable and instructive. Often he was 

 sent on delegations by the government. In 1830 he visited Warsaw 

 in the time of the cholera. In 1845 he made a tour of France, Eng- 

 land, and Scotland. He was one of the judges at the "World's Expo- 

 sitions, in 1851 and 1861 at London, and in 1855 and 1867 at Paris. 

 He attended the scientific associations in Germany, and in 1864 in 

 Switzerland. Every year he visited the meteorological stations in 

 Germany, and occasionally those outside of his own jurisdiction. 



Dove was the youngest member and the last survivor of a most 

 brilliant circle of literary and scientific men, who made illustrious the 



