. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. alth caused him torelinquish his charge, when he again betook him-self to South America, remaining at the CordobaObservatory two years. With health fully recovered,he once more returned to the northern hemisphere,and, accepting a call to the Chair of Mathematicsand Astronomy at the Racine (Wisconsin) College,he occupied it from 1884 to 1889, in which latteryear he accompanied the United States Eclipse Ex- pedition
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. alth caused him torelinquish his charge, when he again betook him-self to South America, remaining at the CordobaObservatory two years. With health fully recovered,he once more returned to the northern hemisphere,and, accepting a call to the Chair of Mathematicsand Astronomy at the Racine (Wisconsin) College,he occupied it from 1884 to 1889, in which latteryear he accompanied the United States Eclipse Ex- pedition to the west coast of Africa. For about twoyears he was an Assistant in the Nautical Almanacoffice, Washington, was appointed Professor ofMeteorology at the United States Weather Bu-reau in 1891 ; and taking the Chair of Solar Phy-sics at Columbian University in 1894 he still retainsboth of these Professorships. In connection withhis special line of work he has devoted considerabletime to scientific research in the field of meteor-ology and solar and terrestrial magnetism, the re-sults of which have appeared from time to time inthe Weather Bureau publications, and he has con-. F. H. BIGELOW tributed quite extensively to the American scientificjournals. Although his numerous educational andscientific duties allow him but little leisure time, hedevotes a portion of it to religious purposes, andfrom 1890 to the present time he has served asAssistant Minister at St. Johns Church, Washing-ton. Professor Bigelow was President of the Wash-ington Philosophical Society and Vice-President ofthe Washington Academy of Sciences in 1898 ; is amember of other scientific bodies and of the Cos-mos Club, \Vashington. Columbian University gavehim the degree of Doctor of Humanities in October 6, 1881, he married Mary Ellen Spald-ing, of Lexington, Massachusetts; they have hadone child, who died in infancy. 37 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS BOUTELLE, Timothy Harvard in Leominste
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