"Dr. Caswell’s predilection was for and astronomy. During the period of twenty-eight and a half years (from December, 1831, to May, 1860) he made, with few interruptions, a regular series of meteorological observations at the same spot on . These observations, precise as regards temperature and pressure, and including also much information on winds, clouds, moisture, rain, storms, the , &c, have been published in detail in Vol. XII of the "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge," and fill 179 quarto pages. Dr. Caswell continued his observations in meteorology with unabated zeal to the end of 1876, covering, in all, the long period of forty-five years."
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Alexis Caswell
(January 29, 1799 – January 8, 1877) was an American Baptist minister, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and professor at . He was, from 1868 to 1872, president of Brown University and, in 1857, president of the (AAAS). In 1875 he was elected a Fellow of the AAAS.
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