Abbe, Cleveland
astronomer, meteorologist, author, was born Dec. 3, 1838, in New York city. He was director of the Cincinnati observatory; and in 1871 became professor of meteorology in the national weather bureau and has since continued in that position. The more important of his many publications include Solar Spots and Terrestrial Temperature; A Plea for Terrestrial Physics; Atmospheric Radiation; Treatise on Meteorological Apparatus; and Preparatory Studies for Deductive Methods in Meteorology. ABBE, FREDERICK RANDOLPH, clergyman, poet, was born in 1827 in Connecticut. He was a congregational clergyman in Massachusetts; and the author of The Temple Rebuilt, a poem of christian faith. He died in 1889.