APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND THE WORK OF THE 

 WEATHER BUREAU 



Charles F. Marvin 



Mr President, Members and Friends of the Ohio Academy of 

 Science: 



It is my first pleasure to try to express to the Academy my 

 sincere thanks and appreciation for the honor and opportunity 

 of attending and taking part in the program of this Quarter- 

 Centennial Meeting. Some of those present already have a more 

 or less intimate knowledge of the rather exceptional conditions 

 that surround my presence here today, but I feel that to many 

 these incidents need to be briefly mentioned in order that all may 

 understand the mingled feelings of pleasure and gratitude that 

 impress me — pleasure because of the opportunity to renew old 

 acquaintances and visit many once familiar scenes — gratitude 

 because whatever attainments I may have reached in later years 

 in the field of science, I owe very largely to the stimulation and 

 inspiration in early life of members of this Academy and others 

 whose labors in the seventies and eighties to give science and 

 education in science a prominent place in Ohio and especially in 

 Columbus culminated first in this great University and later in 

 the Organization of the Ohio Academy. Columbus is the home 

 of my youth, the University my alma mater. Scenes that greet 

 my eyes on every side are tinged with all the romance and color 

 of the past and call up all the memories, the hopes and ambitions 

 of the youth. To be more specific the occasion which brings 

 us together today recalls to my mind the times in the "seventies" 

 when Prof. Mendenhall and others charmed the Columbus au- 

 diences in the old Opera House by wonderful exhibitions of 

 scientific apparatus, accounts of the invention of the telephone, 

 and the introduction of courses in manual training in the colleges 



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