432 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1884. 



No. of paragraph. 

 Weather predictions — Continued. 



Popular 97 



Transatlantic 95,94 



European 98 



For Manila 99 



Veriticatiou of 93,100,102 



By prophets 103 



Of rain 104,377 



Method of verifying 105,106,107 



Size of districts 107 



Distribution in high and low areas 320, 327 



Webber, P. R., errors of thermometer 115 



Weihrauch, Prof. K. : 



Computation of average humidity 155 



Wind components » 158 



Wells, height of water in 223 



Wharton, W. J. L., glaciers of Patagonia 433 



Whipple, G. M. : 



Errors of the black bulb in vacuo 117 



Methods of tilling barometers 139 



Composite portraiture 154 



Wild, Prof. H. : 



Exposure of thermometers 131 



Earth currents at Pavlosk 351,352 



Winds, upper. {See Currents.) 



Wind force : 



Diurnal period on land 248,249 



Diurnal period at sea 236, 248 



Diurnal period at sea explained 237 



Diurnal period in Europe 238 



Diurnal period in Siberia 235 



Diurnal variation 3 



Wind direction, diurnal period in, explained 252 



Wind: 



Theory of sea breeze and land breeze 250,251 



Computation of mean velocity 158 



Mathematical theory of 253-262 



Etfect on barometric readings 270 



Origin of gusts orBoen 298-307 



Winkelmann, Dr. A., verification of rain predictions 104 



Woeikof, Prof. A. : 



General treatise on climate 73 



Author of treatise on climate of Siberia 74 



Diathermancy of the air 166, 167 



Temperature and topography 185 



Diurnal period in winds of Siberia 235 



Wohlgemuth, Lieut. E. von, Austrian Arctic expedition of 1882-'83 29 



Wollny, Professor, temperature and soil 187 



Zenker, Dr. W., photography of clouds 149 



Zoppritz, climatology of Central America . 82 



