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MR. WALTER GOULD DAVIS, director of the Meteorological Bureau of Argentina for many years, died at his birthplace, Danville, Vermont, U.S.A., on April 30 in his sixty-eighth year. His early training was that of a civil engineer, especially in railroad surveying through the White Mountains. When in his early twenties, he went to Argentina as assistant to his uncle, Dr. B. A. Gould, founder of the Cordoba Astronomical Observatory. On the resignation of Dr. Gould in 1885, the National Meteorological Service, which was then a branch of the Cordoba Observatory, was reconstituted and Mr. Davis appointed director at the early age of thirty-four.
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M., R. Walter Gould Davis. Nature 103, 508–509 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103508a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103508a0