1 



1820.] Mr. Meikle on Rain-Gauges. 



Second answer from Equation VIII. 

 1 = 1-0000000 



- = i?- = 0-9090909 



V 11 



(!fy = li; ....= 0-8264463 

 I^Y ^w ^ 0-7513148 



\vj 113 



(")^= G 



I0\ 



Four terms of 

 the numerator = 3-4868520 



Gr-(^) 



421 



l-OOOOO 



0-88066 



0-77557 



Three terras of the de 

 nominator .... 



= 2-6562c 



11 



= 11' = 2-22398, we then have 



-t ± 



11^ - 10^ 



11 



10 



3-486852 x 2-22398 



Therefore the true value of 



= 2-91945 nearly. 



4. 4^ 



11* - 10^ 



U - 10 



Value by series (E) 

 Value by series VIII. 



Approximate values ■< 



^i.u 



y 



10' 



2-91942. 



2-91943 

 2-91945 



2-96531 



2-87258: 



Article IV. 



Reply to Mr. Boase on Rain-Gauges. By Mr. Meikle. 

 (To Dr. Thomson.) 



SIR, Burners' -street, Sept. 21, 1820. 



It is with no small reluctance that I again resume a subject 

 which I had already more than once sufficiently discussed. 

 Although I never adapt my writings to those who know nothing- 

 of science at all, yet I presume they are extremely plain and 

 intelligible to all who are any way initiated in the first principles. 

 of the mathematical sciences. 



Should M. Flaugergues have seen my very short note which 

 you had the goodness to insert in the Annals of F/ii/osophu for 

 Oct. 1819, I do not in the least doubt that he would have oeen 

 fully convinced of his mistake ; and I should also hope that a 

 perusal of your number for April last has likewise ^satisfied 

 Mr. Holt of his having laboured under the same delusion. But 

 what bhall we say of Mr. Boase '? who, notwithstanding these 



