212 ME.>rORIAL OF JOSEPH HENRY. 



ble extent with physical and chemical investigations. On the 21st 

 of March 1827, he delivered before the Albany Institute a lecture 

 on "Flame," accompanied with experiments.* 



Meteorological Work. — The Regents of the University of the 

 State of New York, endowed by the State Legislature with super- 

 visory functions over the public educational institutions of the 

 Shite, — in 1825 established a system of meteorological observation 

 for the State, by supplying to each of the Academies incorporated 

 by them, a thermometer and a rain-gauge, and requiring them to 

 keep a daily register of prescribed form, to entitle them to their 

 portion of the literature fund of the State. In 1827, the Hon. 

 Simeon De Witt, Chancellor of the Board of Regents, associated 

 wath himself Dr. T. Romeyn Beck and Professor Henry of the 

 Albany Academy, to prepare and tabulate the results of these 

 observations. The first Abstract of these collections (for the year 

 1828) comprised tabulations of the monthly and yearly means of 

 temperature, wind, rain, etc. at all the stations, an account of 

 meteorological incidents generally, and a table of "Miscellaneous 

 Observations " on the dates of notable phases of organic j^henomena 

 connected with climatic conditions. These annual Abstracts, to 

 which Henry devoted a considerable share of his attention, Avere 

 continued through a series of years and were published in the 

 "Annual Reports of the Regents of the University to the Legisla- 

 ture of the State of New York.t The third Abstract (for 1830) 

 includes an accurate tabulation by Henry of the latitudes, longi- 

 tudes, and elevations of all the meteorological stations; over forty 

 in number. 



ELECTRICAL RESEARCHES AT ALBANY: FROM 1827 TO 1832. 



Of Henry's distinguished success as a lecturer and teacher, in 

 imparting to his pupils a portion of his own zeal and earnestness 

 in the pursuit of scientific knowledge, as well as in winning their 

 affection and in inspiring their esteem, it is not designed here to dis- 

 course; but rather of his solitary labors outside of his professional 



* TVans. Albany Tnxtitutc, vol. i. part 2. p. 59. 



i Reports of Regents, etc. Albany, vol. 1. 1829-1835. 



