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THEODORE S. ABBOT...
...Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846. Last August it observed its goth birthday, received congratulations from its presiding officer ex officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
...paragraph headed "Outstanding Events," Dr. Abbot did not fail to give prominent mention in last week's report to his studies of solar radiation and terrestrial weather. Long and laborious research has convinced him that world weather tends to repeat itself in 23-year cycles, which he finds not only in longtime weather records but in tree rings, Great Lakes water levels, sediment laid down by ancient glaciers, annual catches of cod and mackerel. Temperature and precipitation forecasts for 1934 in 30 U. S. cities made on the basis of the Abbot cycle turned out, he declared, two-thirds...
...covered with such engines they would produce as much sun-power as the dam will yield waterpower. Viscount Falmouth looked at the solar engine, said to Mr. Dunn: "I don't think any solar engine will ever work in England. Do you think, sir, you could induce Dr. Abbot to perfect a fog motor...
...Prentiss; 1899--Arthur Adams, George F. Baker; 1900--Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Dwight F. Davis; 1901--James Lawrence, Robert E. Goodwin; 1902--Barrett Wendell, Jr., Robert J. Bulkley; 1903--Roger Ernst, Monte M. Lemarin; 1904--James Jackson, Arthur A. Ballantine; 1905--Ogden L. Mills, Walter S. Gifford; 1906--F. Abbot Goodhue, Philip Ketchum; 1907--Winthrop W. Aldrich, Robert L. Bacon; 1908--Rudolph Altrecchi, Samuel E. Morison; 1909--Elliott C. Cutler, William G. Wendell; 1910--Roger Amery, Clarence C. Little; 1911--Herbert Jacques, Charles E. Denlap; 1912--Hugh J. Gaddis, Robert T. Fisher; 1913--Samuel M. Folton, George C. Cutler; 1914--Junius...