E.R. Hobson delivered a popular lecture, "Observations about rain in South Africa", before the Zwart Ruggens Farmers' Association (presumably at Jansenville, Cape Colony). The lecture was published in the Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope (Vol. 23, pp. 692-695) in 1903. In 1908 he wrote a general discussion of the South African climate, with special reference to air circulation and desiccation, which was also published in the Agricultural Journal (Vol. 33, pp. 461-470), under the title "Weather conditions of South Africa".

The author of these articles is presumably Edmund Ernest Roberts Hobson (also just Ernest Roberts Hobson), a stock farmer, son of William Carey Hobson and Elizabeth, born Roberts. He was first married to Margaret (or Maria) Nuttal and later to Margaret Medley.

List of sources:

Edmund Ernest Roberts Hobson. http://www.1820settlers.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I44970&tree=master as on 2017-9-18.

FamilySearch: Edmund Ernest Roberts Hobson. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95F7-SCQ?view=index&action=view&cc=1779109 AND https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MGLD-D9C

Hobson, E.R. Weather conditions of South Africa. Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, 1908, Vol. 33, pp. 461-470. Downloaded from http://journals.co.za/docserver/fulltext/ajcgh/33/4/1107.pdf?expires=1505723156&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=3ACAB9203AD96DC092AC5F8738C25B98 on 2017-9-18.

National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs.htm Documents relating to Hobson, (Edmund) Ernest Roberts / Hobson, E.R.

Venter, R.J. Bibliography of regional meteorological literature. Vol. 1. Southern Africa, 1486-1948. Pretoria: Weather Bureau, 1949.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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