[Youmans, William Jay (ed.), "Sketch of William C. Redfield", Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, Vol. L, November 1896 - April 1897, p112]
[article quotes Professor Denison Olmsted]
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I was soon made sensible that the humble enquirer was himself a proficient in meteorologist. In the course of the conversation he incidentally brought out his theory of the laws of our Atlantic gales, as the same time stating the facts on which his conclusions were founded. This doctrine was quite new to me, but it impressed me so favourably that I urged him to communicate it to the world through the medium of the American Journal of Science. He manifested such diffidence at appearing as an author before the scientific world, professing to be only a practical man, little versed in scientific discussions, and unaccustomed to write for the press. At length, however, he said he would commit his thoughts to paper and send them to me on condition that I would revise the manuscript and superintend the press. Accordingly, I received the first of a long series of articles on the law of storms and hastened to procure its insertion in the Journal of Science. Some few of the statements made in the earliest development of his theory he afterward found reason for modifying, but the great features of that theory appear there in bold relief.
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