Lorin Blodget

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Lorin Blodget (born in Chautauqua County, New York, May 23, 1823 - 1901), American physicist and writer. In 1851 he became assistant professor at the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. He may be said to have laid the foundation of American climatology. In 1855 he published a quarto volume of climatological observations, and in 1857 Climatology in the United States, a work extensively circulated and very favorably received in Europe. He was editor of the North American, published in Philadelphia, and secretary of the Philadelphia Board of Trade from 1858 to 1864. He contributed articles on finance to the North American Review in 1866 and 1867, besides making contributions to various other publications.

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• Thompson, Kenneth. "The question of climatic stability in America before 1900", Climatic Change, Vol. 3, No. 3, September, 1981.
• This article incorporates text from the Universal Cyclopædia & Atlas, 1902, New York, D. Appleton & Co., a publication now in the public domain.