SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



ON 



CERTAIN STORMS 



EUROPE AND AMERICA, 



DECEMBEPv, 1836, 



BY 



ELIAS LOOMIS, LL.D., 



PROPESSOB OF NATCRAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE fNIVEHSITT OF THE CITT OF NEW YORK. 



[accepted fch publicatiox, august, 1859.] 



