Charles Meldrum
1821–1901
Meteorologist. MA, Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1844. Appointed to the education department, Bombay, 1846–8. Professor of mathematics, Royal College of Mauritius, from 1848. Government observer at the meteorological observatory, Port Louis, Mauritius, 1862–7. Returned to Britain in 1867. Superintendent, Royal Alfred Observatory, Pamplemousses, Mauritius, 1875–96. Worked on cyclones, rainfall, and sunspots. FRS 1876.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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