Evening star., 1936-12-07
DR.. FASS|G, HURT
BYAUT0, EXPIRES.
Retired Weather Bureau
MeteoroIogist Was Struck
by Car November 20.

Dr. oliver L. Fassig, rs. retired
Weather Bureau n1eteorologist. died
last night in Emergency Hospital.
where he had been under treatment
since being knocked down by an auto
mobile in the 4700 block of Connecti-
cut avenue on November 20. He had
suffered leg fracture, cuts and other
injuries.
DR.. Fassig, whose home in recent
years had been in Garden City, N. Y,
had been staying at the Cosmos Club
while attending tropical medicine
convention at Baltimore.
In recent years he had been doing
work. on a book to be published on
the climate OF Puerto Rico. The book
was prepared at the School of Tropi-
cal Medicine at San Juan, Puerto
Rico, under grant from the Milton
Fund of Harvard University.
The book, recently completed, con-
tains scientific data on upper air cur
rents and hurricane movements, on
which subjects DR. Fassig was a recog-
nized authority. 1t also deals with
climate and its effect on health.
DR.. Fassig retired from the Weather
Bureau in 1882, his last position be-
ing that of chief of the Division of
Climatology. From 1919 to 1880 he
was in charge of the Weather Bureaus
West Indian and Caribbean service.
He began work with the bureau in
1888.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, DR..
Fassig was graduated with a bachelor
Of science degree from Ohio State Uni
versity in 1882. Subsequently, he stud
led at Yale and the University of Ber-
lin. In 1899 he received his Phi. D. de-
gree from Johns Hopkins University.
For many years, while in the Gov
ernment service, he lectured on me-
teorology at Johns Hopkins, being in
structor there from 1897 to 1901 and an
associate there from the latter year to
1919.
He was meteorologist of the Mary
land State Weather Bureau Service
from 1900 to 1909 and again from 1912
to 1919. He lectured on climatology
at the School of Tropical Medicine
ut the University of Puerto Rico from
1926 to 1880. Since his retirement
from the Weather Bureau Service in
1882 he had been research associate
Of the Blue Hill Observatory of Har-
ward.
In 1905 DR.. Fossig was a member OF
the Ziegler Arctic Relief Expedition.
He was a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, member of the International
Committee on Scientific Aeronautics
and the Association of American Geog-
raphers, serving as secretary of the
latter in 1918-19. He also belonged to
the Cosmos Club here and the Faculty
Club Of Harvard University.
DR.. Fassig was the author of num-
Der of books and papers on scientific
subjects. Among his writing were:
"A Bibliography of Meteorology''
Omitted States Weather BureaW, pub
lished in four volumes, 1889-91; Re
port of the Chicago Meteorological
Congress-" 1888 Omitted States
Weather Bureau, prepared 1894-96;
"A Report on the Climate and Weather
of Baltimore" 1904-7; Reports on the
Climate of Puerto Rico" 1910-30.
DR.. Fassig Is survived by his widow,
formerly Anne Green Mccoy of An
napohs, Md, who Is staying here with
friends. at 1850 Connecticut avenue;
four sisters, Mrs. Frederick Theobald,
Mrs. Charles Gill, Mrs. William Reel
and Miss Alice Fassig, and brother,
Cornelius Fassig, all of Columbus,
Ohio.
Funeral arrangements were to be
announced later.