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THE death of Henrik Mohn, on September 12, at Christiania, removes from the meteorological world a very well known and popular figure. Born at Bergen on May 15, 1835, he had completed his eighty-first year. He took part in all international assemblies of meteorologists from the commencement of the series of 1873 until the meeting of the International Meteorological Committee at Rome in 1913, when he excused himself on account of the long journey. Shortly afterwards he retired from his appointment as director of the Norwegian Meteorological Service and professor in the University of Christiania, which he had held since 1866. He maintained his scientific activity to the end of his life. His most recent work was the discussion of the meteorological observations of Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole, which was published in 1915. It displays remarkable ingenuity in giving a con-nected meteorological account of the conditions near the Pole based upon a very limited number of data, but with true insight.
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SHAW, N. Prof. Henrik Mohn . Nature 98, 211–212 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098211b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098211b0