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important new instrument was added to the Station — a 

 Dines' anemo-biograph, a self-registering and up-to-date 

 anemometer for recording wind direction as well as mileage. 



Adolphus Collenette lived just long enough to see the 

 new Station in working order, and to feel that his under- 

 study, Mr. H. V. W. Miles, the present Director, had quali- 

 fied to succeed him and continue without a break, which 

 would have been disastrous to the long climatological record, 

 the woirk he had had so much at heart. Had Mr. Collenette 

 lived a little longer, I know it was his intention to arrange 

 for an official opening of the Station with a public inspection 

 of the premises and equipment. That, however, was not to 

 be, but he passed away happy in the knowledge of the full 

 accomplishment of his life's purpose— the establishment of 

 a State-supported Meteorological observatory. 



A tower of strength to every cause he associated himself 

 with and thorough if anything in all he undertook, the pass- 

 ing of Adolphus Collenette is a great public loss. He has 

 crossed into that unexplored country from which no traveller 

 returns, but he lives in our memories and will continue so to 

 live. In the presence of sorrowing relatives and friends the 

 mortal remains were interred at Le Foulon on June ioth — 

 the mortal remains only, for in sure and certain hope we 

 believe that the yielding up of this life is the kindling of that 

 larger, fuller life to which Adolphus Collenette has been 

 admitted. 



Appreciations of the life and work of Adolphus Colle- 

 nette were published in the Guernsey Star and the Guernsey 

 Evening Press of May 8, 1922, the Museums Journal of 

 June, Nature of June 17, and in the Meteorological Maga- 

 zine of July. 



Basil T. Rowswell. 



"Les Blanches," Guernsey. 

 December, 1922. 



