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MR. CHARLES HARDING, formerly an assistant in the Meteorological Office, died at Eastbourne on Sunday, Jan. 9, in his eighty-first year. Mr. Harding entered the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade in 1861, and was among those who transferred to the service of the Meteorological Committee when the Office was reconstructed in 1867 after the death of Admiral Fitzroy. He thus had experience of the Office under all the different forms of administration through which it had passed, with the exception of the most recent one of all under the Air Ministry. For some thirtv years Mr. Harding was Principal Assistant in the Marine Division, and served under three Marine Superintendents, Captain Toynbee, Lieutenant Baillie, and. Captain M. W. Campbell Hepworth. He retired in 1911, but returned during the War for part-time duty, and did not finally sever his connexion with the Office until 1920. His active career in the Office, therefore, extended over nearly sixty years. Mr. Harding became a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1874, and served on its council and as vice-president for many years. He was the author of a number of meteorological papers, dealing mainly with climatology or marine meteorology, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Meteorological Society and elsewhere. For some forty years he was a valued and regular contributor of notes and articles on meteorological subjects to the columns of NATURE.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 119, 132 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119132a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119132a0