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Rh utterances were heard, marked him as the Arago and Brewster of Germany. For more than a quarter of a century his audiences were among the largest and most accomplished in the great hall of the Berlin University, overcrowded as it was by students and scholars of all ages and from all stations in society and in the army. Germany showered on him in profusion those honors which it but sparingly bestows except on the highest order of learning and science; and other countries amply recognized the successive results of Dove's masterly researches; there is scarcely a learned or scientific society of any note that has not his name enrolled among its honorary members. The Berlin Academy of Sciences elected him, in 1837, one of its youngest members; and in 1845 he was raised to the distinguished position of the chair of Physics in the University of Berlin, now held by his successor Professor Helmholtz. When Alexander von Humboldt died, May 6, 1869, the insignia of the high order pour le mérite, worn by him, were bestowed upon Dove; and in 1867 he was chosen Vice-Chancellor of that most exalted rank for scientific achievement in Germany.

It would far surpass the limit allotted to this brief sketch to enter in detail upon the scientific labors and works of Dove; his scientific papers published in the memoirs of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, in Poggendorf's "Annalen," in "Zeitschrift für Erdkunde," in "Zeitschrift des Preussischen Statistischen Bureau's," etc., between the years 1827 and 1876 number more than two hundred and fifty, besides his larger published works and treatises, of which the most noted are:

"Über Maas und Messen," 1835; "Meteorologische Untersuchungen," 1837; "Über die Nichtperiodischen Veränderungen der Temperatur-Vertheilung auf der Oberfläche der Erde," 6 vols., 1840-1859; "Untersuchungen im Gebiete der Inductions Electricität," 1843; "Über den Zusammenhang der Wärme-Veränderungen der Atmosphäre mit der Entwicklung der Pflanzen," 1846; "Temperaturtafeln," 1848; "Über Electricität," 1848; "Monats Isothermen," 1850; "Verbreitung der Wärme auf der Erdoberfläche durch Isothermen und Isanomalen," 1852; "Darstellung der Farbenlehre," 1853; "Monats-und-Jahres Isothermen in der Polarprojection," 1864; "Darstellung der Wärme-Erscheinungen durch fünftägige Mittel," 3 vols., 1856-1870; "Die Witterungs-Erscheinungen des nördlichen Deutschlands," 1858-1863; "Das Gesetz der Stürme," 1857; "Optische Studien," 1859; "Anwendung des Stereoscopes zur Erkennung falschen Papier Geldes," 1859; "Die Stürme der gemaessigten Zone," 1863; "Klimatologische Beiträge," 2 vols., 1857-1869; "Klimatologie von Nord Deutschland," 2 vols., 1868-1871; "Eiszeit, Föhn und Sirocco," 1867; "Der schweizerische Föhn," 1868; "Der Kreislauf des Wassers auf der Erde," 1868; "Gedächtnissrede auf Alexander von Humboldt," 1869, etc.

They show Dove to have been a most thorough and successful