Dr. O. Klotz

Abstract

THE death is announced, at the age of seventy-one, of Dr. Otto Klotz, Director of the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa. He seemed to be in excellent health when he attended the Rome meetings of the Astronomical and Geophysical Unions in May 1922, and his death adds one more to the unexpected losses which have sadly diminished the number of working seismologists in recent years. He had been Director of the Dominion Observatory for some half-dozen years. Dr. W. F. King, who founded that Observatory in 1903, and also started the Canadian Geodetic Survey and other Canadian enterprises, died on April 23, 1916, making a break in the four names which had appeared on the front page of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (Chant, King, Stupart, Plaskett) since its first number in 1907. Dr. Klotz's name, with the title of Director of the Dominion Observatory, appears on No. 2 of vol. xii. (Jan. 1918), while Mr. Plaskett becomes the Director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, taking charge of the new 72-inch reflector at Victoria, B.C.