122 Additional Objections to Redfield’s Theory of Storms. 
Arr. XL.— Additional Objections to Redfield’s Theory of Storms ; 
by Roserrt Hare, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 
= of tai 
: (33. In a honmnuniestion to the American Journal of Science, 
for January, L endeavored to point out various errors. and incon- 
sistencies, in the theory of storms proposed. by..Mr. Redfield, or 
in the reasoning and assumed scientific principles. on which that 
theory. had been advanced... Of these. errors I will present a brief 
summary. me, let wey ee & aig 
. 34. Lconceive that. Mr. Redfield has erred, in ascribing atmos- 
pheric currents, whether constituting trade winds or storms. of 
any kind, “solely to mechanical gravitation as. comrnectpe with 
the rotatory and. orbitual motion of the earife,”’* :.. 
. 35. In ascribing those atmospheric, gyrations. of. which Aue 
ing to his hypothesis all storms consist to “ opposing and unequal 
forces,” without specifying the nature or accounting for the exist- 
ence of these forces, shone sisi that. Wek: i as 
above mentioned. . 
-36. In assigning to all Pang etre a tendency to veel ao 
whirls and circuits, when subjected to opposing and 
ces when this allegation, if true at.all, can only be soi Saws 
peculiar cases of such forces. 
37. In alleging all storms to be aihisl Wade and yet representing 
a“ rotative movement in air as the only cause of destructive winds — 
and tempests,” so that a whirl is the only cause of a whirlecind.t 
» 38. In averring, in reference to the alleged gyration and. vor- 
tical. force of tornadoes which are by him treated as hurricanes 
in miniature, that “all narrow pond riche» wontinge Ate a 1 spiral 
involute motion quickening at 
ire or axis of the whirl,” spoilt isting it must be evident that aha 
_— in a ftuid does not result from a centrip- 
et ib arising from an cine or dense current : at the 
Ske paiagrink 43 of this essay. 
t fre Journal, Vol. xx1, p. 192: Storms and hurricanes consist in the regular 
gyratory motion or action of @ fin stmt body of a which action is the 
If we understand Mr. Redfield, canna as the Ate the 
« violence” —not as the cause of the “ whirlwind 0 words not sy- 
nonymous. é 
