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 Correction of Barometrical observations for Capillary action. 

 Table XXII. Correction to be applied to English Barometers for Capillary 



action .......... 337 



XXIII. Normal Height of Meniscus in millimetres, by Delcros . . 337 



XXIV. Correction to be applied to Metrical Barometers for Capillary 

 action, by Delcros ........ 338 



XXY. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



—PouiUet 331) 



XXVI. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



— Gehlers Worterbuch ....... 33!) 



XXVII. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



reduced from Delcros' Tables ...... 340 



XXVIII. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



—Baily 340 



IV. HYPSOMETRICAL TABLES 341 



Tables based on Laplace's Constants. 



Table I. Delcros' Tables, in Metrical measures ..... 349 



" II. Guyot's Tables, in English measures . . . . .371 



" III. Loomis' Tables, in English measures ..... 387 



" IV. Gauss' Tables, modified by Dippe, old French measures . . 397 



" V. Dippe's Tables, for reducing Barometrical observations to another 



Level, and for computing Heights, old French measures . 398 



" VI. Babinet's Modification of Laplace's Formula .... 406 



" VII. Baily's Tables, in English measures ..... 407 



Tables based on Bessel's Formula. 

 " VIII. Plantamour's Tables, in Metrical measures .... 410 



Miscellaneous Tables. 

 " IX. Correction for the Hour of the Day at which the Observations 



have been taken. Coefficients, by Berghaus . . . .418 



" X. Correction for the Hour of the Day, old French measures . 419 



" XI. Correction to be applied to the Half-sums of the Temperatures 



observed at Geneva and St. Bernard, and its Value in Metres 

 at all Hours and Seasons of the Year, by Plantamour . . 420 



" XII. Mean Height of the Barometer at the Level of the Sea in vari- 

 ous Latitudes ......... 423 



" XIII. Mean Height of the Barometer in all months of the year . 424 



" XIV. Mean Height of the Barometer at all hours of the day . . 424 

 " XV. Tropic Hours of Daily Variation at Halle .... 425 



*' XV'. Amplitude of Daily Variations in various Latitudes . . 42o 



Reducing the Barometer to the Level of the Sea . . 42<) 



