CATALOGUE. — METEOROLOGY, CLIMATE. 



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Whitehurst. Ph. tr. 17^)7. 265. 

 Apr. 1 8, at J past 9, p. m. — 1 ° F. 



Bevis and Short. Ph. tr. 1768. 54, 55. 

 Byres. I'h. tr. 1768. 336. 

 At Rome, gg''. 



Watson. Ph. tr. 1771.213. 

 Wilson. Ph. tr. 1771.326. 



Glasgow. 



Van Swinden. Ph. tr. 1773. 89. 

 De Caifi.S. E 1773.541. 



On the cold in Canada from the N. W. winds. 



Barker. Ph.tr. 1775. 202. 



Allahabad. The heat often 109" in the shade, once 114°. 



Roebuck on the heal of London and Edin- 

 burgh. Ph. tr. 1775. 459. 

 Roz, IV. 82. 



A heat of34i R. or lOo" F. was fatal to more than l»000 

 persons at Pekin. 



Brisson and Duluc. A. P. 1777- 522. 



The cellar or well of the observatory varied from ol" to 

 IQl" R. or from 53'' to i5|" F. 



Wilson on cold at Glasgow. Ph. tr.' 1780. 



45 I . 

 Blagden. Ph. tr. 1781. 



The mean temperature in Jamaica is about 81°. 



CullumOn a hardfiosi 23 June 1783. Ph. tr. 

 1784.416. 



Cassini. A. P. 1786. 507- Roz. XXXV. 140. 

 Cassini on the greatest heat at Paris. M. 

 Inst. IV. 338. 



In 1701, 104° F. 



Hunter. Ph. tr. 1788. 53. 



Found the springs at Kingston in Jamaica, about 80° ; 

 after a gentle ascent of two miles 79° ; cold spring, nearly 

 1400 yards above the sea, was 61 j"; the variation is 1" for 

 SSOfeet.Theextremes atKingston weresg and gi° :theusual 

 height in the cold season from 70' to 77' , in the hot from 

 «5° to 90°. At Brighthelmstone the heat of a well was 50", 

 at Bromley, in November 491", and the mean between the 

 heat in London, at sunrise and at 2 o'clock, is about 49". 2. 

 Kirwan gives 52" for the mean heat of London, The wrclls 

 at New York vary from 54° to 50°. 



Heberden's table of the mean heat from 1763 



to 1772. Ph. tr. 1788. 66. 

 P. Wilson on cold attending a hoar frost. 



Ed. tr. I. 146. 

 Pingie on some severe winters, A. P. 1789. 



514. 

 Philotattee. Jsiatic Mirror. Mag. 1789. 



An account of the heat at Cawnpore, from 7 th April t« 

 6th May 1789. For 21 days from 14th April to 6th May, 

 the mean heat without doors at 2, p. m. was 127°, the 

 greatest heat, lath April, 144"; the mean heat at night U3": 

 behind a tattee, or wet mat, tlie mean heat, at 2, was 79", 

 48 ' lower than in the open air. 



*Cotte's table of temperatures. Roz- 

 XXXIX. 27. 



Agrees in general with Kirwan. Cotte malies the mean 

 temperature of Paris 9;° R. or 53".4 F. 



Cotte on some severe winters. Journ. Phys. 



XLVIII. 270. 

 Toaldo on the temperatures of 50 places. 



Roz. XXXIX 43. 

 Toaldo on some sudden heats. Soc. Ital. VI. 



85. 

 A copious table of temperatures by Heinsius. 



Erxleb. §.761. 



From Winkler's physik. 



Rumford on the saltncss of the sea. Ess. If. 



vi. 

 Manch. M. IV. 601. 



The sea varies at Liverpool from 36° to 68''. 



Messier on the heat of 1793. Ann. Ch. 



XVIII. 310. 

 Messier on the heat at Paris. M, Inst. IV. 



501. 

 Manch. M. IV. 



The thermometer at Kendal is about 47° at a mean. • 

 Kirwan's rules give 4 8i°. 



Ph. M. X. 172. 



The mean temperature at Columbo is 79^.5, the utmost 

 variation 13". 



The mean of the greatest cold and heat at Paris is 54*^.5. 



Lalandt mentions a heat of 113° in Senegal. In the sum- 

 mers of 1753, 1765, and 179s, it was 104" in France. 



The mean temperature in London is 50°, 5 from the ob- 



