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DR. CHARLES MELDRUM was born at Kirkmichal, Banffshire, in 1821, and died in Edinburgh in August 1901. He was educated at Aberdeen University, and after graduation as Master of Arts he joined the Bombay Education Department. In 1848 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the Royal College of Mauritius, and soon thereafter turned his attention to meteorology, of which he continued to the end one of its most ardent students. It was chiefly by his influence and exertions that the Meteorological Society of Mauritius was founded in 1851, he being its first secretary. He was appointed Government Meteorological Observer in 1862 and Director of the Royal Alfred Observatory in 1875; and in recognition of the great public services he had rendered to the colony he was made a member of the Government Council of Mauritius. For his services to science, more particularly to meteorology, his own University of Aberdeen conferred on him the honour of L.L.D.; in 1874 he was elected a F.R.S.; and in 1886 he was honoured with a C.M.G.
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BUCHAN, A. Charles Meldrum . Nature 65, 9–11 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065009b0
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