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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 193, 16 August 1922, Page 9

CLEMENT E. WRAGGE. F.R.G.S, F.R., MET-SOC., F.R.C.J., ETC. SOME REMINISCENCES OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE. ''I am an 'only -child,' born at Stourbridge, England, in 1852, lost both parents in infancy, and was nurtured by a beloved grandmother at the family home at Oakamoor, in the romantic and lovely Churnet Valley, North Staffordshire. Granny taught mc the first principles of Astronomy, Geography, and the natural Sciences, and being evidently bflrn that way, long before I was twelve I revelled ih the stars and wondered if the Jewish God was really The God of an endless Universe. As to Geography, no boy could touch mc, and Granny expounded the mysteries of the 'weather glass.' I rejoiced in Nature; and the surroundings of the Crystal Palace, near where I went to school, fostered my tastes. Evolution progressed! I linished classics with the Vicar of Launceston, romantic Cornwall compelling a love of Nature still more. I studied navigation at Janet Taylor's Nautical Academy in London, and went to sea for experience. I have travelled in all the six divisions of the world. I founded the Wragge | Museum of Ethnography, Geology, and Natural History at Stafford, England, and gave it to the country. Worked three meteorological stations in North Staffordshire, and then founded the Ben Nevis Observatory, climbing the mountain 44.00 feet daily in all weathers. This got mc the Gold Medal. I joined the South Australian Survey and became devoted to science with physical astronomy and meteorology as very special lines, and started the Torrena Observatory, Adelaide, and another on Mount Lofty, S.A., and later on Mount Wellington, in Tasmania. Then I became Government Meteorologist of Queensland, and travelled in duty all over that State. I j attended International Conferences and inaugurated the Observatories in the French Colony of Sew Caledonia, also I the famous Observatory on top of Mount Kosciusko, in Xew South Wales. One of my main works was the issue of ver K thcr forecasts for al! Australia, r ro lOO'.i my beloved sciences have main-fat. 1 mc. and given mc a home in God's Own Country. All that time 1 have lectured on the marvels of the Universe, in England, also all over India, Ceylon, Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, Tonga and New Zealand, doing all I could to lift mankind to a nobler conception of God. and what the Eternal Universe really means. Radium is one of my very special subjects, and I have splendid specimens. I have published the -Romance of the South Seas' and other works. In constitution I am strong and wiry as a steel rope, but in South Australia a few years ago I suffered temporarily from an awful backache and kidney trouble. 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