CONTENTS. 



Volume II. 



PAET II— CONTINUED. 



Meteorology: Notes on rain-gages 

 Meteorology : On the rain-fall at different heights 

 Meteorology in its connection with Agriculture 

 Part I. General considerations 

 Part II. General atmospheric conditions 

 Part III. Terrestial physics, and temperature 

 Part IV. Atmospheric vapor and currents 

 Part V. Atmospheric electricity 

 On Acoustics applied to public buildings 

 Account of a large sulphuric-acid barometer in the Smith 



sonian Institution .... 

 Statement in relation to the history of the electro-magneti 



telegraph ..... 

 On the application of the telegraph to the premonition of 



weather-changes .... 

 On the utilization of aerial currents in Aeronautics 

 Systematic meteorology in the United States . 

 Eemarks on " Vitality " 

 Suggestions as to the establishment of a Physical Observatory 

 Effect of the Moon on the weather 



On the organization of a scientific society. [An address.] 

 On the employment of mineral oil for light-house illumination 

 Investigations relative to illuminating materials 

 On the organization of local scientific societies 

 The method of scientific investigation, and its applicati(?>n t 



some abnormal jshenomena of sound. [An address.] 

 Observations in regard to thunder-storms 

 Opening address to the National Academy of Sciences 

 Closing address to- the National Academy of Sciences 



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