Geology and Meteorology 



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Meteorological Office, Pretoria, 

 2nd February 1938. 



" Dear Sir, 



" The late Mr. Alfred Brown started taking 

 meteorological observations officially in January 

 1876, being supplied with instruments by the 

 Cape of Good Hope Meteorological Committee. 

 The meteorological equipment at that time 

 consisted of a barometer, dry and wet bulb 

 psychrometer, maximum and minimum thermo- 

 meters, a Robinson anemometer and a raingauge. 

 Observations were made by Mr. Brown personally, 

 and it transpires from his records that he was 

 always a most painstaking observer. 



" In December 1916, then in his 83rd year, 

 he decided to discontinue his meteorological 

 observations owing to infirmities consequent upon 

 advancing age. 



§< Thus for 41 years continuously he devoted 

 part of his time to enriching the meteorological 

 records of this country. I have not been able to 

 look into the records of all our observers, but I 

 feel sure that this record of 41 years' unbroken 

 observations at one and the same station is 

 unparalleled in South Africa and is probably 

 equalled only by very few single observers in the 

 world. 



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