CONTENTS OF 'VOLUME FIRST. xix 



APPENDIX. 



Page 



No. I — Meteorological Tables, - - (1) 



II.— Meteorological Results, - Fronting (48) 



A. General Abstract of the foregoing Register, (ib.) 



B. Table for determining the Mean Annual 



Temperature of latitude 78° N., and of 



the North Pole, - (49) 



C. Table for ascertaining the Mean Tempe- 



rature of the month of April, lat. 78°. N. (50) 



D. Table for ascertaining the Mean Tempe- 



rature of the month of July, lat, 78°. N. (ib.) 



E. Absti'act of Thermometi'ical Observations 



made at the Apartments of the Royal 

 Society, London, - (51) 



F. Abstract of Fifty Yeai-s Observations on 



the Temperature of Stockhohn, - (52) 



G. Formulae for Calculating the Mean Tem- 



perature of unobserved months, - (53) 



III. a.— Chronological enumeration of Voyages under- 

 taken by the different Nations of the World, 

 in search of a Northern Communication be- 

 tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ; in- 

 cluding such other Voyages as have been 

 conducive to the advancement of Discovery 

 in the North, - (54) 



6.— Notice respecting the Effect of the Sun's 

 Rays, and the Decrease of Temperature on 

 ascending in the Atmosphere, - (72) 



IV. — Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of Capes, 

 Bays, &c. in Spitzbergen and Jan Mayen, 

 derived chiefly from original Surveys, - (73) 



