194 Historical 



3 Mme. B***, born de V***, The Olympic Circus, etc. followed by the Aeronautic Horse 



of M. Testu-Brissy, Paris. 1817. oat,, , 



I Relation du seizieme voyage acrien de M. Blanchard, dedicated to S.A.S. Mgr. le prince 

 de Ligne; br. in-4 of 17 p. Client, 1786. 



B Journal de Paris, December 5, 1785. 



7 lanuary 5, 1786, p. 18. 



* : Ibid., December 20. 1785; p. lir.fi. 



8 16th and 20th Messidor and 10th Thermidor, in the year VII. _ . 



9 Robertson, Relation adressee aji president de V Acad. imp. de Saint-Petersb., in his 

 Memoircs recreatifs, scicntiftques ct anecdotiqucs, 2 vols. Paris, 1810. 



10 It is, therefore, by an error that all authors, without exception, have attributed a 

 height of 7470 meters to the ascent of Robertson. 



II By Izarn (See the Moniteur universel, January 25, 1804). 

 12 January 20, 1804; year XII, vol. I. o. 73. 



™'4bentcuer des Grafe Z . . . bei einer nachtlichen Luftfahrt. Gilberts Annalen der 

 Phvsik, vol. XVI, p. 205-209; 1804. .„-,*■ r v ,„ 



" 14 Souvenirs d'un voyage en Livonic. a Rome ct a Naples, faisant suite aux Souvenirs de 

 Pans. Translated from the German. Paris. 4 vol.. 1806. . 



»•• .■'j.vimoiz </<? Robertson ct Sacharoff, T"'ie 30, 1804. Annates de Chxmie, vol. LI I, p. 121 

 (Report of Robertson). Philosophical Magazine, 1805; vol. XXI, p. 193 (Report of Sacharort). 



1U Account of an aerostatic journey made bv MM. Gay-Lussac and Biot; read to the class 

 of mathematical and physical sciences of the Institut National, the 9th of Fructidor. in the 

 year XII Moniteur Universel, of the 12th of Fructidor in the year XII (August 30. 1804.) 



17 Account of a balloon journey made by M. Gay-Lussac the 29th of Fructidor, in the year 

 XII. Ann. de Chimie. vol. LII. p. 75-94, year XIII. 



18 September 9, 1S08. , . „ _. ,. „ , 



19 Travels in the Air, by Glaisher, Flammarion. W. de Fonvielle and G. Tissandier. 2nd 

 edition. London, 1871. 



-" Piblioth. britann., vol. LVII, p. 286-300; 1814. 



31 May 8, 1812. 



-'Mav 16, 1812. 



nSilliman's American Journal, vol. XII, p. 161-108; 1827. . 



-♦The work of Roch (Essai stir les Voyages aeriens d'Eug. Robertson; Paris, 1831), says 

 3533 fathoms (6886 meters). „ , ... • • r. • 



26 Relation du premier voyage aerostatique execute dans la Reepubliquc mexicaine. I aris. 

 1835. 



-'" I.es Voyages aeriens. Paris, 1870, p. 27. . 



-'• Einigcs iiber die Luftreize des H. Green in London am Kronuugstage des Komgs. 

 Froriep's Notizen, vol. I, p. 71; 1822. See also: Ibid, vol. V, p. 202.) 



^ Bericht iiber cine I.uftschiffarht. Ibid, vol. XXXII, p. 49; 1831. 



- 9 Neue Froriep's Notizen, vol. I, p. 8; 1837. 



3,1 Fetter to the "Standard, July, 1837. 



31 Handbuch der rationnellen Pathologic. Vol. II, 2nd. part; 1851. 



3:5 Vol. XIV. p. 921; 1842. ^ , , , , 



33 Tournal d'un voyage aeronautique fait le 27 juillet 1850. Cpt. R. .lead, des sc, vol. 

 XXXI," p. 126; 1850. . , 



34 An account of Meteorological Observations in four Balloon Ascents, made under the 

 direction of the Few Observatory Committee of the British Association for the advancement 

 of science, by Tohn Welch. Philosophical Transactions, Vol. CXLIII, p. 311-347; 1S53. 



35 Glaisher, Flammerion, de Fonvielle, G. Tissandier, Voyages aeriens, Paris, 1870. 



::,: 'Travels in the Air, 2nd ed. London, 1871. . , 



37 Mr. Coxwell was an aeronaut by profession; the ascent of June 30 was Mr. Glaisher s 

 first. . . , 



3S The possibility of opening a balloon valve thus, even for a man in full possession ot 

 his powers, has been absolutely denied by a professional aeronaut, M. Dute-Poitevin (/ Aeronaute 

 of April lsTfi, p. 105). I should call attention to the fact that M. Glaisher never considered 

 M. Coxwell a scientific collaborator. . . 



39 In the diagram which accompanies this account, a diagram the original of which, drawn 

 by M. Glaisher himself, I have had in my possession, the last certain observation of height 

 is" about 8100 meters; the temperature was —20.6°. # 



40 The passage between brackets does not exist in the English text. Can it have been added 

 by a fanciful translator? Traduttore, traditove. . 



A1 This is the number in the English edition and diagram. Voyages aeriens gives 7800 

 meters. 



45 The journal, the Aeronaut, number of August, 1S74. 



