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"CATALOGUE. — METEOROLOGY, WINDS. 



servations of the R. S. varying in different years from 48° 

 to 52® : the mean of the greatest cold and greatest heat is 50" 

 or 4g°. 



A t the equator, the line of congelation is about 1 5 600 feet 

 above the sea; near the tropic, 13 430; at Teneriffe, lat. 

 28°, 10 000 ; in Auvergne, lat. 45°, 6740 ; lat.51° to 54" 

 5800 ; lat. 80° n. about 1200. Bouguer says, 2434 tois»s in 

 the torrid zone ; in France 1300 or 1600. 



Meteorological Tliermometers. 



See Heat. 



Self registering thermometer. Leupold. Th. 



Aerostat, t. 23. 

 Van Swinden surla comparaison des thermo- 



metres. 253. 



On thermometers showing the maximum. 



Lord Charles Cavendish on thermometers 

 showing the maximum. Ph.tr. 1757. 300. 



Gaussen. Itoz. XV II. 61. 



Six's thermometer. Ph. tr. 1782. 72. 



Six on a thermometer. 8. Maidstone, 1794. 

 K.I. 



Hutchins's thermometgrs. Ph. tr. 1783.303*. 



Rutherford's thermometer. Ed. tr. III. 247. 



Consisting of two horizontal thermometers, one of spirit, 

 with a little cone of coloured glass within the fluid, the 

 other of mercury, with a bit of ivory in the empty part : the 

 one marking the greatest heat, the other tne least. 



Keith's self regiitcriiig thermometer. Ed.tr. 



IV. 203. Nich. HI. 264. Ph. M. IE. 61. 



Glib. XVII. 319. 



Wiih a float leaving a mark, or writing on a wheel. 

 Enc. Brit. Art. I hermomeler. 

 Lemaistre on Six's thermometer. Gilb. II. 



287. 

 Von Arnim's thermometrograph. Gilb. II. 



289. 

 Crichton's self registering thermometer. Ph. 



M XV. 147. Glib. XVI[ 317. 



A thermometer of metal showing the ma.iimum and mi- 

 nimu-n. 



A oaroscope is sometimes made of a solution of 6 parts of 

 camphor, 2 nitre, and l sal aramoniacj in common malt 



spirits ; this is said to crystallize in bad weather, especially 

 in windy weather : but it is probably mote atfectcd by eoH 

 than by wind. 



Winds. 



Winds in general. 



Bacon de ventis. 1664. Works. III. 441. 

 Bohun on winds. 8. Oxf. l671. 



Ace. Ph.tr. 1672. VII. 5147. 

 Garden's causes of wind. Ph. tr. l6S5. XV. 



1148. 

 Morhofi Polyhistor. II. ii. c. 33. 

 D'Alembat sur la cause geuerale des vents. 



4. Berl. 1747. 



Ace. A. P. 1750. H. 41. 



Relating to gravitation. 



Musschenbioek Introductio. II; 1090. 



VVargentin. Schw. Abh. 1762. 173. 



Elder on the motions of fluids from he?it. N. 



C.Petr. XI. XIII. XIV. XV. 

 Leipz. Samuil. zur Physik. II. 575. 

 Coudvaye Theorie des vents et des ondes. 8. 



Fontenay, 1786. Copenh. 1796. R.S. Par. 



1802. 

 Ducarla on winds. Roz. XXXII. 89. 

 Kirwan on the variations of the atmosphere. 



Ir. tr. 

 Darwin's botanic garden. Notes. 

 Observations on winds. Manch. M. IV. 601. 

 Capper on the winds and monsoons. 4. Lond. 



1801. U. S. 



Regular Winds. 



Garden on the cause of several winds. Ph. tr. 



1685. XV. 1148'. 

 *Halley on the trade winds, with a map. Ph. 



tr l.iSG. XVI. 1>3. / 



*Wailis'bOi)jeitions to Ilalley. Birch. IV.5I9. 

 * Had ley on the cause of trade winds. Ph. tr. 



1735. XXXIX 58. 

 On the rotatory momentum of the air. 



