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...Harold Noyes '97, senior meteorologist of the Boston office of the United States Weather Bureau, will give a talk in the Leverett House Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. A dinner will be held immediately before the address of Mr. Noyes...
Such questions as these the Weather Bureau has been trying to answer over since its inception. As yet it has met with little success. George II. Noyes '97, senior meteorologist of the Boston office of the United States Weather Bureau, can trace the path of a storm with surprising accuracy but is forced to confess ignorance when asked why this winter has been so unusually severe. However, it is interesting to delve into the history of an individual storm such as the blizzard which has plagued Bostonians yesterday and today...
...Kimball, considered America's leading radiation meteorologist, will study the effect of changes in the sun on weather and climate. The recent eclipse provided much data for special studies of solar and sky radiation, which he will complete this year at Harvard. Dr. Kimball is president of the American Meteorological Society, and has received international recognition for his contributions to the science of solar radiation...
...Berlin, Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener's widow commissioned her brother-in-law, Professor Kurt Wegener, meteorologist, who at once prepared to go to Greenland to take command of the expedition. She told him to leave her husband's body at rest in its frigid tomb...
...Professor Lowe,* meteorologist and inventor, built the balloon City of New York, then the largest ever constructed (diameter, 130 ft.), for a flight across the Atlantic. The outbreak of the Civil War upset that plan. Professor Lowe went to Washington to propose to General Winfield Scott the formation of a balloon corps. The General was not impressed, finally lent his ear and his aid only at the personal prompting of President Lincoln...