Macedonio Melloni
1854, October
Macedonio Melloni - Obituary

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Published in "The Gentleman's Magazine", Volume 42, October, 1854, p.409.
 
At Portici, near Naples, of cholera, aged 53, the Chevalier Macedonio Melloni. He was born at Parma, and appointed Director of the Meteorological Observatory on the summit of Mount Vesuvius in 1839, on the recommendation of Arago and Humboldt, but dismissed from political motives. He had received the gold Rumford medal from the Royal Society of London, and was well known to Professor Faraday, Dr. Brewster, and other scientific men in England.
 
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