of Edinburgh, Session 1879-80. 357 
Sciences, and sometime thereafter was raised to the distinguished 
position of the chair of physics in the University of Berlin. 
Among the scientific and fashionable circles of Berlin he took first 
rank as a lecturer, the combined qualities of accurate science, fine 
imagination, lucidity of style, commanding presence, and the extent 
over which his utterances were heard, marking him out as the Arago 
and Brewster of Germany. Germany showered on him in pro- 
fusion those honours and offices which it gracefully and gratefully 
bestows on learning and science ; and perhaps there is no learned or 
scientific society of note that has not Dove’s name enrolled among 
its honorary members. After a protracted and hopeless illness he 
died on Friday April 4th 1879, in the seventy-sixth year of 
his age. 
In the Boyal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers the lists 
under Dove specify 234 memoirs, written between the years 1827- 
73. These show him to have been a successful worker and investi- 
gator in electricity, optics, crystallography, and in such practical 
matters as the metric systems of civilised nations. But it was to 
meteorological inquiries that he devoted his full strength and the 
whole powers of his mind, and by his herculean, but well-directed 
labours, he has written his name in large imperishable characters on 
the records of science. 
His fame rests on the successful inquiries he carried out with a 
view to the discovery of the laws regulating atmospheric phenomena, 
which apparently were under no law whatever. The work he will 
be long best known by is his isothermals and isabnormals of tem- 
perature for the globe, in which work one cannot sufficiently admire 
the breadth of view which sustained and animated him as an 
explorer during the long toilsome years spent in its preparation. 
Equally characterised by breadth of view, and what really seemed a 
love for the drudgery of detail even to profuseness, when such 
drudgery appeared necessary or desirable in attaining his object, are 
various works on winds, the manner of their veering, and their rela- 
tions to atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and rainfall, 
and the important bearings of the results on the climatologies of the 
globe ; on storms and their connections with the general circulation 
of the atmosphere ; the influence of the variations of temperature on 
the development of plants ; and the cold weather of May — to which 
