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Mr. Lubbock on the Heat of Vapours 



Mr. Russell has calculated for me the following table, by means 

 of my expressions, and with the constants 



y 1-5, E = - 1-192: 



The observations marked with an asterisk are those which were 

 employed in deducing the constants. 



The temperatures calculated by Mr. Russell from my formula 

 may be considered as identical with the " temperature regularised 

 par la continuite", given by M. Biot in the Conn, des Temps, 184-1, 

 p. 13. The observations* of M. Gay Lussac of temperature are re- 

 presented in the following diagram: 



* The irregularities of the observations of temperature in any future ascent might 

 perhaps be diminished if the ballast were suffered to escape gradually in a continued 

 stream. 



