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and educational institutions. On other occasions the TyndalL 

 Association arranged exhibitions of scientific experiments and 

 apparatus drawn from the laboratory of the new University, then 

 known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. These 

 events were features of the intellectual activity of the city and 

 served to delight and instruct the enthusiastic boy as well as all 

 who attended. I can not help but associate the^e memories 

 tinged and colored as they are by all the enchantments of youth, 

 with the Ohio Academy of Science, beciause the origin of both 

 , is to be found in the scientific activities, purposes and ambitions 

 of one and the same body of men. The mention of these thoughts 

 and incidents will I hope help to make you understand something 

 of the seriousness, sincerity and depth of the feelings that impress 

 me on this occasion. 



It is my privilege and pleasure also to extend to the Ohio 

 Academy of Science the sincere and cordial congratulations, 

 commendations and felicitations of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences which I have the honor to represent as delegate for this 

 purpose., It is earnestly hoped that this anniversary may be 

 propitious of many subsequent recurrences and that the hopes 

 and objects of the Academy may be fully realized and attained. 



In addition to the incidents I have already mentioned as 

 serving to make my present position somewhat peculiar I find 

 also in the title of this brief address. "Applied Meteorology and 

 the Work of the Weather Bureau" a coincidence and a happy 

 opportunity of gratification to all Ohio scientists. In this I refer 

 to the not widely enough known circumstance that Ohio is the 

 real birthplace of the United States Weather Bureau and its 

 invaluable system of simultaneous meteorological observations 

 telegraphically reported. It seems particularly appropriate at 

 this Quarter-Centennial Celebration of the Ohio Academy of 

 Science tO' very briefly outline the early work of Prof. Cleveland 

 Abbe while Director of the Mitchel Astronomical Observatory 

 at Cincinnati, during 1867-70. In claiming that the Federal 

 Bureau is the direct outcome of Abbe's initiative, we do not in 

 the least disregard or ignore the splendid work done in the United 

 States by such men as Redfield, Piddington, Maury, Espy, Henry, 



