METEOROLOGY AND ALLIED SUBJECTS. 



By Cleveland Abbe. 



INTEODUCTORY NOTE. 



The compilation of this record for 1879-1881 having been undertaken 

 at a late date, the time available for its preparation has been too short 

 to allow of consulting the original scattered memoirs; it will therefore 

 be found that the following pages consist almost exclusively of abstracts 

 from those invaluable periodicals, the "Zeitschrift fUr Meteorologie," 

 edited by Hann, at Vienna, and "Nature," edited by Lockyer, at Lon- 

 don. It is hoped that but little of importance has been omitted, and 

 that this record will bring to the notice of the American reader much 

 that might otherwise have been overlooked. 



I. — ^INSTITUTIONS AND INDIYTDUALS. 



Prof. H. W. Dove died on the 4th of April, 1879, at Berlin, and in 

 him meteorology lost its most distinguished representative. Dove was 

 born, October 6, 1803, at Liegnitz, and was made professor extraordi- 

 nary at the University of Berlin in 1828 and became a member of the 

 Academy of Sciences' in 1845. Optics, electricity, and meteorology, but 

 especially the latter, have alike profited by his activity. In 1846 the 

 Prussian meteorological system was established through his efforts. 

 He was not only an investigator, but a teacher of rare talent, and a 

 lecturer who possessed in a high degree a talent of rivetting the atten- 

 tion of his audience. His public lectures at the university and his 

 addresses before the Berlin Polytechnic Association were attended by 

 hundreds of admirers. In whatever relates to the grand generaliza- 

 tions that may be deduced from meteorological observations, Dove has 

 very properly been styled the "father of meteorology." {Z. 0. O. M.,* 

 p. 193, XIV.) 



Professor Dr. Johann von Lamont, director of the observatory at 

 Munich, died on the 6th of August, 1879. He was born September 13, 

 1805, in the extreme north of Scotland. Kemoved to iiegensburg, Ger- 

 many, in 1817, and in 1827 to Munich. In 1828 he became assistant at 

 the Royal Observatory at Bogenhausen, and, in 1833, on the death of 

 Soldner, became the director. His numerous observations and investi- 



•The initials Z. 0. G. ilf., conatantly used, designate the Zeitschrift Oesterreichiachen 



Gesellschaft fur Meteorologie. 



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