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THE death of Cleveland Abbe near Washington, D.C., on October 28, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, makes a gap of a special character in the ranks of meteorologists, and particularly among those who use the English language. From 1871 until August last, when he retired, Abbe was professor of meteorology in the United States Weather Bureau. That is the title which the bureau gives to the professional meteorologists on its staff. Born and educated in New York, he had been a teacher of mathematics in New York and of engineering at the State University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. From there he went to Harvard University, 1860–64, being at the same time aid in the U.S. Coast Survey under B. A. Gould; thence to the Central Observatory of the Russian Meteorological Service at Petroerad for two years; aid in the U.S. Naval Observatory, 1867–68, and director of the Cincinnati Observatory, 1868–73.
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SHAW, N. Prof. Cleveland Abbe . Nature 98, 332 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098332a0
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