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VENNOR, Henry George, Canadian meteorologist, born in Montreal, 30 December, 1840; died there, 8 July, 1884. He was graduated at McGill university in 1860, taking the zoological and geological courses under Sir William Dawson, studied civil engineering, and took a course of chemistry in Montreal medical college. For five years after leaving the university he was in business, but found time to make a large collection of the birds and fossils of Montreal island, and also made a study of the weather. In 1865 he became assistant to Sir William Logan, of the geological survey of Canada, with whom he spent a season in examining Manatoulin island in Lake Huron. There he contributed letters to the Montreal "Witness," made a collection of the birds of Lake Huron, and prepared a list of all that bred on the island. He was placed on the permanent staff of the geological survey in 1866, was elected a fellow of the Royal geological society of England in 1870, and con-tinned his geological surveys till 1881, when he left the service of the government and opened a mining agency in Montreal. While employed on the survey he traced the rivers Lievre, Rouge, and Gatineau to their sources, and succeeded in directing public attention to valuable phosphate-mines. He first attracted notice as a meteorologist in the autumn of 1876, when he predicted a "green" Christmas and a rainy New-Year's day, which prediction was verified. At, the same time he began the publication of " Vennor's Almanac," which he continued till his death, and which, it was claimed, attained a larger circulation than that of any similar publication in the world. He made a study of the course of storms for many years, and attained his results chiefly by comparing atmospheric conditions at the time with similar ones in the past. He published "Our Birds of Prey" (Montreal, 1875). The remainder of his writings appear in the "Reports" of the geological survey, the "Canadian Naturalist," and the "British American Magazine." In 1882-'3 he supplemented his almanac with "Vennor's Weather Bulletin."
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