The New International Encyclopædia/Scott, Robert Henry

SCOTT, Robert Henry (1833— ). A British meteorologist, born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated there at Trinity College, and in Berlin and Munich. He was keeper of the mineralogical museum of the Royal Dublin Society from 1862 to 1867, when he became director of the British Meteorological Office, a post which he held until 1900. He wrote: Volumetric Analysis (1862); Weather Charts and Storm Warnings (1876; 2d ed. 1887); and Elementary Meteorology (1883).