Jakuaey 28, 1898.] 



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No. 73, $250 to Professor J. von Kennell, Dorpat, 

 Kussia, for a Monograph of the paltearctic Tarteicidse. 

 Application No. 742. 



No. 74, §300 to Professor Georges Urbain, 1 Evie 

 Victor Cousin, Paris, France, for the chemical In- 

 vestigation of rare earths. Application No. 746. 



No. 75, $25 to Professor Wm. Z. Ripley, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., for 

 a Bibliography of the Anthropology and Ethnology 

 of Europe. Application No. 747. 



No. 76, $300 to Professor A. Belopolsky, Ob- 

 aervatoire centrale, St. Petersburg, Kussia, for Ex- 

 periments on the Principle of Doppler-Fizeau. Ap- 

 plication No. 749. 



No. 77, $100 to Professor C. H. Eigenmann, Bloom- 

 ington, Illinois, for the Study of Blind Pishes. Ap- 

 plication No. 751. 



No. 78, $250 to Professor P. Francotte, Rue Gillon 

 66, Brussels, Belgium, for the investigation of the 

 fecundation and segmentation ot the eggs of Poly- 

 clada. Application No. 755. 



New applications will be considered in 

 January, 1899, provided they are received 

 by the Secretary before December 1, 1898. 

 Circulars announcing the terms of the trust 

 for the guidance of applicants may be ob- 

 tained by application to the Secretary. 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot, 



Secretary. 



Harvard Medical School, 



Boston, Mass., .January 22, 1898. 



JOEN A. QANO. 

 Mr. John A. Gano, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 who died on January 15th, should be re- 

 membered by Amerian scientists as the one 

 who most efficiently encouraged the estab- 

 lishment of a system of daily weather pre- 

 dictions for the benefit of business men. 

 This subject was suggested in my inaugural 

 address, as Director of the Observatory, in 

 May, 1868, and Mr. Gano, as one of the 

 trustees, at once took the matter up for 

 favorable action. On the 28th of July, I 

 explained it more fully to him and, at his 

 request, put my ideas in writing for his use 

 as editor of the Cincinnati Commercial. In 

 1869 he became President of the Chamber 

 of Commerce, and a second letter from me 

 was requested by him, which gave him the 



desired opportunity to urge the matter upon 

 the attention of that body. He appreciated 

 the whole scope and bearing of the pro- 

 posed work ; he appointed the Committee of 

 Conference and in every way forwarded the 

 enterprise with the greatest intelligence and 

 discretion. After the ' Weather Bulletin 

 of the Cincinnati Observatory ' began to 

 appear, September 1, 1869, he advocated a 

 still wider extension of the work. I had 

 already visited the Chicago Board of Trade 

 and written to the daily papers of New 

 York City, hoping to extend the scope of 

 our work. In addition to this, Mr. Gano 

 and Mr. William Hooper, as delegates to 

 the National Board of Trade meeting at 

 Richmond in November, 1869, contem- 

 plated bringing our work to the attention 

 of that body, but when they found a 

 scheme already formulated by my corre- 

 spondent. Professor I. A. Lapham, and the 

 Hon. H. E. Paine, of Milwaukee, and about 

 to be presented by the Hon. C. D. Holton 

 as delegate from the Milwaukee Board of 

 Trade, thej'' heartily supported that and on 

 their return to Cincinnati assured me that 

 they regarded a national weather bureau 

 as the inevitable outcome of the work at 

 Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati Weather Bulletin and 

 predictions of 1869 was really my personal 

 effort to utilize science for the benefit of the 

 people, but historically it may also be con- 

 sidered as a revival of the reports and maps 

 started by Espy and Henry, under the joint 

 auspices of the Federal Government and the 

 Smithsonian Institution, in 1848, and main- 

 tained at Washington with the cooperation 

 of the various telegraph companies until 

 1861. Professor Espy was personall}' well 

 known in Cincinnati, where he died in 

 1857. The merchants of that enterprising 

 city had long been accustomed to secure 

 special weather telegrams to guide them in 

 their business operations, and every one re- 

 sponded to Mr. Gano's endorsement of the 



