On the Rotary Action of Storms. — 8 
radicals, oxyphosphionides of ieee a PO'- 
PO?+3H 
Al, To me the formation a three compound lng 
reiterated addition of an atom, of which five of th 
were previously in the mass to which the addition is 
more anomalous, mysterious, and improbable, than 1 
of three compounds of phosphoric acid with water, i 
presence of the different proportions of water is the co 
of some change in the constitution of the elements, which i is re- 
ferred to isomerism. 
42. No reason can be given why the addition of one, two; and 
three atoms of oxygen, to the “radical,” should convey a power 
to hold a proportional number of atoms of hysinogeng 
acquisition of power is an anomaly. y 
43. In the case of radicals formed with lpabients 1 
proportions, as in acetyl and ethyl, formyl and methy 
ber of atoms of oxygen in the Saree is the in 
hydrogen in the radical. 
44, Ethyl, C+, H°, unites, at most, with one atom 
while acetyle, C+, H®, takes three atoms to form acetic a 
Be .03;: Methyl, C?, H3, forms, in like manner, only a prote ae 
oe while formyl, Cc, H, takes three atoms to constitute formic 
nab Besides the shal sesialesalaisiids of Wiehe the femme 
are above stated, there would have to be another in the = 
Phites ; so that instead of the hydrated acid, or 
ter, being PO?+HO, it would have to” ve —" a fourth 
*xyPhosphionide of hydrogen. 
; ars be mela.) 
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Arr. VII.—On the “esas of Storms ; by Cuarves Tracy. 
: (Read before the Utica Natural History Society. x as a % 
Tue i investigations of Mr. Redfield and Col. Reid have nectt- 
tulated a vast amount of evidence in favor of the propositions 
they maintain. The tendency of this evidence is to demonstrate, 
that in the large storms which affect extensive districts, and also 
in the violent. tornadoes which devastate a brief path, there 
are two motions, the rotary and ~ progressive ; and that the 
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