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THE death is announced of Mr. Frederick Chambers, late Meteorological Reporter for Western India, at the age of seventy-seven years. Mr. Chambers was the younger brother of Charles Chambers, who went out from Kew Observatory in 1864 to take charge of the Colaba Observatory, Bombay. Frederick went out as assistant to his brother. In 1873 his paper, “The Diurnal Variation of the Wind and Barometric Pressure at Bombay,” was published in the Phil. Trans, of the Royal Society, and another paper, “Mathematical Expression of Observations of Complex Periodical Phenomena; Planetary Influence on the Earth's Magnetism,” written in collaboration with his brother, appeared in the Phil. Trans, in 1875. About this time Mr. Chambers was appointed Meteorological Reporter for Western India. A quotation from the first annual report which he printed is not without interest. It is explained that meteorological instruments had been sent out from England in 1852, “the duty of making the observations at those places being imposed on the senior medical officers”; the comment is made, “We would hope that-from the zeal and energy of medical officers in charge of European hospitals and their love of science, the observations may be made by themselves and their establishments, without entailing on the public any expense on this account.”
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Mr. Frederick Chambers. Nature 112, 550–551 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112550a0
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