Espy, JAMES POLLARD, meteorologist, born in Pennsylvania in 1785, for a time practised law and taught classics. His theory of Storms (q.v.) was embodied in the Philosophy of Storms (1841). Appointed in 1843 to the Washington observatory, Espy there laid the basis of the Weather Bureau. He died 24th January 1860.
Espy, JAMES POLLARD
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 426
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