CLEVELAND ABBE
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A distinguished American meteorologist; born in New York city, Dec. 3, 1838. He studied astronomy in Germany, and was director of the Cincinnati Observatory from 1868 to 1870. Since 1871 he has been professor of meteorology in the National Weather Bureau. Among his chief publications are: "Treatise on Meteorological Apparatus"; "Preparatory Studies for Deductive Methods in Meteorology"; "Solar Spots and Terrestrial Temperature"; "Atmospheric Radiation"; "Physical Basis of Long Range Forecasting".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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