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Show Forecast For New Weather Bureau Chief, Fair and Steady I I METEOROLOGICALLY speak- ing. Charles Frederick Mar- vln, the now head of the United States weather bureau, bu-reau, may best be likened to the trado winds, which blow steadily all the year i round in one direction. He is Juotl; about as steady In fact he novcrl. changes In his devotion to the scientific scien-tific stud of the weather. For him tho wind has been blowing steadily in ono ! direction for twenty-nine years, and Photo by American frcss Association. PROFESSOR MARVIN, NEW WEATHER CHIEF, TESTING APPARATUS. now it has blown him Into the office I held before him by Willis L. Moore. Of course tho weather enters into the I dally and nocturnal, lives of all of us. but mighty few of us have made so close a study of it as has Chief Marvin. Mar-vin. Tho weather is his hobby as well as his business. Ho has Invented Instruments In-struments to measure It to probe It to register It to estimate Its hoight. width, depth and velocity. When the weather bureau wants to Know how much solar radiation there is, or how' high tho clouds are, or how much rain or snow has fallen, or to what degreo tho crust of the earth has been dis turbed by a volcanic eruption In the Fiji islands, It uses an Instrument Invented In-vented or Improved by Mr Marvin The weather Is his general topic, and Instruments to use in studying It are his specialty. Here are some of his feats In the construction of tho things sf gauRes and tubes. He has made Important Investigations Investiga-tions of anemometers for the measurement measure-ment of wind velocities and pressures; has Invented Instruments for measur ing and automatically recording rain-full, rain-full, snowfall, sunshine, atmospheric1 pressure, evaporation, etc.; has made extensive studies and written on the use of kites for ascertaining meteorological meteoro-logical conditions In the free air, the registration of earthquakes, the measurement meas-urement of evaporation, solar radiation, radia-tion, temperature with electrical resistance re-sistance thermometers, etc. Europivan and other foreign weathers, weath-ers, taken In bulk, being essentially the same as American weather, the scientists scien-tists of the rest of the world have reo-Ognlxed reo-Ognlxed Professor Marvin's ability In this lino by adopting and using instru- : ments ln-vented or perfected by him. f Professor Marvin made his first I weather observations In Putnam, O.. where he waa born Oct. 7. 1858. It H was while he was an Instructor In mechanical me-chanical drawing and mechanical and physical laboratory practice In the rj Ohio State university that ho was at- Ha traded by a newspaper notice to the effect that the old signal corps, the I predecessor of the present weather bureau, bu-reau, needed young men. He has been connected with the servlco ever since jj and has represented It officially at sd- j entific congresses at home and abroad. Personally the weather chief resem-bli resem-bli i the gentle western zephyr rather thai! tho rud... north wind, for there la nothing self assertive about him. When the Interviewer gets nt him and asks personal questions he steers tho man with the pencil off Into Interesting explanations ex-planations of the latest piece of appa- I ratus or the newest methods of observing observ-ing weather In various parts of the United States. Professor Marvin Is married and has three children of whom he is very food iin.l I'T'iuJ. He is athletic In appearance, appear-ance, but confesses that ho does not play golf and finds his irreatest recreation recrea-tion In long walks along country roads But there, he says, ho looks at the I flowers and grass Instead pi the clouds, for ho believes that even tho man most devoted to his work should get away from it once in awhile. The long delay in appointing Pro- j feasor Marvin to succeed Professor Moore was due. it is said, to President W .::-n's desire to appoint the scientific expert best fitted for the place at the head of the bureau Professor Mar- In s namo was presented to the preel- i dent by a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences Twen- j ty-slx names were considered, and bv j a process of elimination Professor Marvin's name came out on top which 1 speaks highly for his standing among men of scientific attainments. 1 WALTON WILLLVMS, |