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PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 



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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 



MAY 184.2. 



LII. Reply to the Objections and Strictures of Dr. Hare, 

 with reference to the Whirlwind Theory of Storms. By 

 W. C. Redfield*. 



IN this Journal for December 184.1 (S. 3. vol. xix. p. 423), 

 there appears an article " On the Theory of Storms, with 

 reference to the views of Mr. Redfield," by Robert Hare, 

 M.D., &C.&C., which is also found, substantially, in Silliman's 

 American Journal of Science for January 1842, and affords 

 occasion for the notes and I'emarks which follow. 



The several series of facts and observations, showing both 

 the rotary and progressive movement of great storms, which I 

 have published, together with those which have also been ad- 

 duced by Reid, Milne, Dove and Piddingtonf, are deemed 

 sufficient to establish the whirlwind character of these storms. 

 In the absence, therefore, of contravening facts of a reliable 

 character, it seems incumbent on an objector to set aside these 

 facts and observations as unfounded and inaccurate, or to 

 show that the results which they appear to establish have been 

 deduced erroneously. This task Dr. Hare has not attempted ; 

 and I might therefore have been excused from replying to his 

 objections and strictures, as these cannot affect the results 

 which it has been my chief aim to establish. 



But the observations which I have published extend also 

 to the so-called tornado or water-spout, and with similar re- 



• Communicated by the Autlior. 



f See American Journal of Science, xx. 20-40; xxv. 114-121; xxxi. 

 115-130; XXXV. 201-223 ; xlii. 112-119; also this Journal for January 

 1841 (S. 3. vol. xviii.), p. 17-19. Reid on the Law of Storms. Weale, 

 Lond. 1837. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xiv. p. 

 467-487. PoggendorfTs Annatcn, Jan. 1841, &c. Piddington's three Me- 

 moirs on the Law of Storms in India. Calcutta. 



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