316 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Early in 1870 Hon. H. E. Paine, of Wisconsin, introduced a bill in Con- 
gress: providing for the establishment of a system of storm signals, based upon 
meteorological observations by the signal corps and officers of the army, and 
General Myer was placed in charge of the work. ‘To this genial task he devoted. 
himself with great ardor and success, establishing for the first time in meteorology 
a broad system of simultaneous reports of the weather, founded upon simulta- 
neous observations taken all over the country at the same moment of actual 
(not local) time, and embodied upon weather maps issued thrice daily from the 
Signal office at Washington, as well as telegraphed to all prominent points for 
the information and warning of navigators, farmers and others. 
The importance of this service was recognized by his being assigned to duty 
according to his commission as Brevet Brigadier-General in June, 1871. In 
March, 1873, Congress made it the further duty of the signal corps to establish 
signal sections at light-houses, life-saving stations, etc., and to connect them 
by telegraph with such points as were necessary to accomplish the objects in 
view, thus enabling General Myer still further to extend his system of simulta- 
neous observations of the weather. ‘The last Congress made him a full Brigadier 
General 
In September, 1873, at the International Meteorological Congress, at 
Vienna, he was the representative of the United States and there proposed a. 
system of uniform observations, with a view to their daily exchange, to be taken 
and recorded simultaneously at as many stations as practicable all over the world. 
This proposition was adopted and the observations were commenced at once 
with semi-monthly exchanges. In 1875 the publication of a daily International 
Bulletin was commenced, and in 1878 that of a daily International Weather 
Map, with the most valuable results. The gradual extension of this system of 
International observations to every portion of the globe, so as to permit the 
announcement of approaching storms and changes for periods longer in advance 
than have been heretofore practicable, was the cherished desire of General 
Myer’s heart; but it was not to be so. He died at the early age of fifty-two 
years; fortunately leaving his work in the hands of experienced and zealous. 
followers, who will undoubtedly carry out in full his intentions and aims. 
CARL PETERSON. 
The death, at the age of sixty-seven years, of the Danish explorer, Carl 
Peterson who had made so many voyages to the North Pole, has been announced 
at Copenhagen. From 1850 to 1851 he took part in the English expedition of 
Capt. Parry, in seach of the survivors of the Franklin Expedition. From 1853 to 
1855 he accompanied Dr. Kane’s Expedition, of which, he was one of the few 
survivors. From 1857 to 1859 he was with Sir Leopold McClintock, whose ex- 
pedition brought back many relics of the Franklin Expedition. Finally, he took 
part in the voyage of Spitzberg on the /rze, during which, he was accompanied 
by Dr. Nordenskjold. 
