BIRT

William Radcliff . b. 15 July 1804; employed by Sir John Herschel in the reduction and arrangement of his barometric observations; investigated subject of atmospheric waves for the British A ociation; reduced and discu ed electrical observations made at Kew 1848; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1859; the first pres. of the Selenographical society 1877 or 1878 to death; author of Hurricane and Sailor’s guide 1850; Handbook of the law of storms 1854, new ed. 1878. d. Ley ton stone, E ex 14 Dec. 1881. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlii , 142–43 (1882).