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Correction of Barometrical observations for Capillary action. 

 Table XXII. Correction to be applied to English Barometers for Capillary 



action .......... 337 



u XXIII. Normal Height of Meniscus in millimetres, by Delcros . . 337 

 " XXIV. Correction to be applied to Metrical Barometers for Capillary 



action, by Delcros ........ 338 



" XXV. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



Pouillet 339 



" XXVI. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



Gehlera Worterbuch 339 



" XXVII. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



reduced from Delcros' Tables . . . . . .340 



" XXVIII. Depression of the Barometrical Column due to Capillary action 



Baily ' 340 



IV. HYPSOMETRICAL TABLES 341 



Tables based on Laplace's Constants. 



Table I. Delcros' Tables, in Metrical measures .... 

 " II. Guyot's Tables, in English measures 



" III. Loomis' Tables, in English measures .... 



" IV. Gauss' Tables, modified by Dippe, old French measures . 



" V. Dippe's Tables, for reducing Barometricalobservations to another 



Level, and for computing Heights, old French measures . 398 

 " VI. Babinet's Modification of Laplace's Formula .... 406 

 " VII. Baily's Tables, in English measures 407 



Tables based on Bessel's Formula. 

 " VIII. Plantamour's Tables, in Metrical measures . 410 



Miscellaneous Tables. 

 " IX. Correction for the Hour of the Day at which the Observations 



have been taken, Coefficients, by Berghaus .... 418 



" X. Correction for the Hour of the Day, old French measures . 419 



" XI. Correction to be applied to the Half-sums of the Temperatures 



observed at Geneva and St. Bernard, and its Value in Metres 

 at all Hours and Seasons of the Year, by Plantamour . .' 420 

 XII. Mean Height of the Barometer at the Level of the Sea in vari- 

 ous Latitudes ........ 



" XIII. Mean Height of the Barometer in all months of the year 

 u XIV. Mean Height of the Barometer at all hours of the day 

 " XV. . Tropic Hours of Daily Variation at Halle 

 " XV. Amplitude of Daily Variations in various Latitudes 

 Reducing the Barometer to the Level of the Sea 



