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The death of M. Louis Fave after an illness of several weeks occurred on July 31. Before his retirement M. Fave was the chief hydrographic engineer to the French Navy, and the greater part of his forty years' administrative service was devoted to the study of tides, to coastal surveys, and to the configuration of oceanic basins. He was interested chiefly in the observational side of such work, and especially so in connexion with the invention and construction of new scientific instruments for those purposes. Among these may be mentioned a very efficient device for the damping of small periodic movements in such instruments as mariners' compasses; he also devised instruments for the navigation of balloons.
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M. L. Favé. Nature 110, 361 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110361b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110361b0