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Bulletin American Meteorological Society celerate with a periodicity which he tried to establish, suc- ceeding only partially. The challenge posed by this very remarkable circulation system will no doubt make mete- orologists and oceanographers turn frequently to his work for guidance in the future. Berlage was no stranger to the United States. He visited this country in an official capacity in 1946, and in 1961 came again as participant in the symposium on solar varia- tions, climatic change, and related geophysical problems, arranged by the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1962 he was invited for a longer stay, spending 8 months as Hendrik Petrus Berlage visiting research associate at Tufts University, where he put his work on the Southern Oscillation in final shape. It subse- 1896-1968 quently appeared as one of the monographs of the Royal Dr. Hendrik P. Berlage, who Netherlands Meteorological Institute under the title: "The died March 3 in his 71st Southern Oscillation and World Weather." year, like many another Berlage was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy meteorologist prepared him- of Sciences, was decorated twice by his government, and in self as a young man for an- recognition for his contributions to the origin of satellite other profession. He trained systems (which came from his avocation) had Saturn's tenth at the Technische Hochschule satellite named after him. He was a professional member of in Zurich as a civil engineer the American Meteorological Society. and, later, at the University Berlage was very friendly, and those who came to know of Strasbourg, where he took him in this country would ask about him long after he had his advanced degree, he was returned to Holland. He leaves his wife, four daughters, and drawn to astronomy. Soon several grandchildren.—Irving I. Schell after leaving the university he joined the then already famed Koninklijk Magnetisch en Meteorologisch Observa- torium te Batavia, now Djakarta, in the former Dutch East Indies. There he spent The Casella some 25 years carrying on work in tropical meteorology in the excellent tradition of his predecessors. Sensitive Anemometer Because the daily weather as a rule varies so little in the for tropics, Berlage studied at first the problem of the local monsoon, but soon the character of his work became more Micrometeorological panoramic. He focused attention especially on the quasi- periodic nature of the pressure oscillations in the tropics, Measurements discovering in the process a two to three year periodicity unrelated to the 26-month periodicity in the upper level Low starting speed: circulation in the tropics that has attracted so much attention 0.1 m/sec. in recent years. After his release from internment at the end of World War Range: 0.1 to IS II, he became director of the observatory under the new m/sec. government, soon to be released from this post to return • Linear calibration to Holland, where he became professor of climatology and meteorology at Utrecht University and a divisional chief of • Remote Indication the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. There he feasible with bat- turned his attention increasingly to the Southern Oscillation. tery-operated coun- Berlage's contribution to meteorology lay primarily in ex- ter unit. tending our knowledge of this very special circulation system, which is neither wholly western, nor eastern, nor northern, No. 442-1 but mainly southern hemisphere or water hemisphere in its make-up, and which because of its inertial characteristics controls the weather over a large portion of the globe. Berlage SCIENCE ASSOCIATES was the first to show the relation of the Southern Oscillation Representing C. F. 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