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the arc 47° 20’, while M. Lapiace’s Elements are ‘01469 
and 46° 48’, 
Diam. Depression. Diam. Depression. 
NICH. LAPL. L1?/C.C. NICH.  LAPL. L?.C.t. 
13809. 1810. 1776. 1809. 1610. 1776. 
*§ -00118 -00128 ‘3. 02906-02965 -036 
“7 :00224 00244 *25 04067. 04117 -050 
6 00416 -00462 -005 | +2  -05802 -05798 -067 
5 00805-00868 -007 | +15 -08621 -08538 092 
“45 01106 “01174 ‘1 +14027 --01394 +140 
<4 01522 -01591 -015 | -05 -29497 
"35 02098 -02165 +025 
A.B. C.D] 
XXIII. On Meteorological Nomenclature. By P. J. Brown, 
; Esq. 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
Sir, — Wane of leisure has prevented my perusing, till this 
evening, Mr. Forster’s paper on the nomenclature of clouds 
_ published in your last number, and I regret being compelled to 
differ in opinion from a person for whose talents I have so much 
‘respect. In every department of polite literature, with the ex- 
ception of scientific nomenclature, I feel decidedly hostile to the 
_ late fashionable introduction of exotic words*: the writings of 
_ Swift, whose language must be admired by every lover of pure 
English, have fully proved the adequacy of our mother tongue, 
for every purpose of general composition: but it should be re- 
collected, in adopting scientific terms, that science is not a na- 
tive of any particular country; but a citizen of the world who 
will always be protected and fostered in every state alive to its 
‘own interest and glory: it is consequently evident that the lan- 
uage of science should be, to as great an extent as can be ac- 
omplished, intelligible to all. 
Consider the state of chemical knowledge when the illustrious 
Lavoisier composed his excellent nomenclature: can it be sup- 
posed that the acquisition of that most pleasing and useful 
science would have become so general, if, instead of adopting 
_® Addison’s excellent and humourous paper in the Spectator, No. 165, 
s as applicable to the present day, as it could possibly have been to the 
time of the battle of Blenheim: how many: dispatches during the late war 
ould have left half London ignorant of the fate of a battle, had not the 
guns told them in more intelligible terms that our brave countrymen had 
gained the victory ! 
terms 
