Report on the Climatology of the Cotton Plant by Patrick Hues Mell

Report on the Climatology of the Cotton Plant by Patrick Hues Mell

Patrick Hues Mell

1850-1918

Patrick Hues Mell was born in Penfield, Georgia. He earned a doctorate from the University of Georgia and then served as state chemist of Georgia from 1874 to 1877. Mell went on to teach geology and botany at Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1878 to 1902. He became president of South Carolina A&M College in Clemson from 1902 to 1910. Mell was known for inventing weather signals used by the U.S. Weather Bureau. He passed away in 1918.

Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://alabamaauthors.org

1893

Report on the Climatology of the Cotton Plant. Washington, DC; Weather Bureau, 1893.

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Mell, Patrick Hues, “Report on the Climatology of the Cotton Plant by Patrick Hues Mell,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24808.