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...Professor Rotch established the Blue Hill Meterorological Observatory, of which he is now the director. This observatory is famous for its investigations of the clouds and it was there that kites were first used to record meteorological data. In recognition of his efforts to advance the knowledge of the atmosphere Professor Rotch was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and he has also received the Prussian Orders of the Crown, and of the Red Eagle...
Officials.--Director, J. M. Moore uL; judges, C. B. Hawes 1G. and J. A. McLaughlin 1G., timekeeper, S.B. Warner...
...Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine. "Observations on Dosage and Methods of Injecting Antitoxin in the Treatment and Prevention of Diphtheria and Tetanus," by Dr. W. H. Park, Director of Research Laboratories, Department of Health, New York City, in the Amphitheater of Building E, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston. Members of the Medical School, the Medical Profession, and the Press are cordially invited...
...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by he director, Edward W. Forbes, enumerates the many important accessions of the past year. The Museum has received the following additions to its permanent collections of works of art: two water color drawings by John Ruskin--"Convent and Alpine Pass," and "Pass of Faido"--presented by friends of Professor C. H. Moore, the first director of the Fogg Museum; from the French government, eight pieces of Sevres porcelain; a Japanese painting by an early Ukiyoye master from Mr. Owen Bryant '04; and thirty-six plaster casts of Arretine moulds from...
After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884, Professor Rotch established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, of which he is now director, and gained great fame by being the first to obtain observations high above the Atlantic Ocean by means of kites, and later with registration balloons. He has taken part in several scientific expeditions, and, in 1905, collaborated, with Teisserenc de Bort in sending a steam yacht to explore the tropical atmosphere. While in Europe in 1889 Professor Rotch was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and has since received many honors both here and abroad...