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PROF. ABBOTT LAWRENCE ROTCH, whose death we recorded with regret last week, was born on June 6, 1861. He received his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whence he graduated in the department of mechanical engineering in 1884. He became interested in meteorological investigation, and in 1885 founded a meteorological observatory at Blue Hill, Massachusetts, at a height of 635 feet above sea-level, for the purposes of observation, research, and local prediction. He showed characteristic independence in refusing at the outset to accept official help in maintaining the observatory at the expense of fettering it with official control. His main work was done in connection with this observatory, which he maintained and directed throughout. The results obtained were published from time to time in separate parts of the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. For the first ten years the work consisted principally of the routine of an ordinary first-order observatory with reduction and analysis of the records, and special investigations of certain problems.
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G., E. Prof. A. Lawrence Rotch . Nature 89, 195 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089195a0
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