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CATALOGUE. METEOROLOGY, SNOW AND HAIL. 



For rain and dew together Dalton makes the mean for 

 England and Wales 36 inches, amounting in a year to 28 

 cubic miles of water. 



Storms of Rain. 



Ph. tr. 1698. XX. 382. 



In Yorkshire. 



Derliain and Leeuweiihoek, Ph, tr. 1704. 

 XXIV. 1530, 1535. 



Chiefly wind. 



Sloane. I'h. tr. 1706. XXV. 2342. 



At Denbigh, 



Thoresby. Ph.tr. 1711. XXVII. 321. 1722. 

 XXXII. 101. 



Near Halifax; fifteen persons were drowned. 



Luckoinbe's tablet of memory. 



A flood in Spain, nny, destroyed 2000 persons, 

 Campbell. Maiidi. M. IV. 265. 



Six inches of rain fell in a storm at Lancaster. 



Snow and Hail. 



Figures of snow. See Physical Optics. 

 Kepler on the se.xangular figure of snow. 



Dornav. amphitheatr. 751. 

 Figures of snow. Hooke's micrographia. 



88, 91. 



Exir. Ph. tr. 16/4. IX. 

 Fairfiix on a hailstorm. Ph. tr. 1667- II. 481. 

 Grew on the nature of snow. Ph. tr. l673. 



VIII. 5193. 



Bart/wliiiwi de naturae mirabilibus. 4. Co- 



penh l!i74. ii. 



Ace. Ph. tr. 1674. IX. , 



Hailstones of more than a pound in Flanders. 



I'h. tr. 1693. XXIV. 858. 

 Halley on a hail storm. Ph. tr. I697. XIX. 



570. 

 On a hail storm. Ph. tr. l697. XIX. 577, 579. 



fWallis on hail. Ph. tr. 1697- XIX. 653, 



7£9. 

 Cassini on the figure of snow. A. P., II. 87i 



X. 25. 



Hail stones weighing l^^lb., the least two 



fingers thick. A. P. 1703. H. 19. 

 Thoresby on a hail storm. Ph. tr. 1712. 



XXVII. 514. 

 Langwith on the figures of snow. Ph. tr. 



1723. XXXII. 298. 

 Musschenbroek on some figures of snow. Ph. 



tr. 1732. XXXVII. 357. Mussch. Intr. 



II. pi. 61. 

 Lulofs on the figure of snow. M. Eerl. 



1740. VI. 83. 

 Stocke nivls figurae. Ph. tr. 1742. XLII. 



114. 

 Engtlmati Verhandeling over de sneewfigu- 



ren. Haarl. 1747. 

 Monesier sur la gr^le. 4. Bourd. 1752. 

 *Netti3 on the configuration of snow. Ph. tr. 



1756.644. 

 Bruni on the mass of snow that fell upon 



Berg.nmoletto. Ph.tr. 1756.796. 

 Fauquier on a hail storm in Virginia. Ph. tr. 



175S. 746. 

 Wilke on the forms of snow. Schw. Abh. 



1761.3, 89. lloz. I. 106. 



The forms are shown by freezing soap bubbles. 



Messieron a number of globules passing over 

 the sun's disc. A. P. 1777- 464. H. 3. 



Probably large hail stones. 



f Ciiamboa on hail. Roz. X. 301. 

 A letter on hail. Rozier. Sept. 1778. 

 Mongez on hail. Kox. XII. 202. 

 Hailstones of above two pounds. Mourgue 

 de Montredon. A. P. 1781. 754. 



With a dry fog supposed to be volcanic. 



Barberet. Acad. Dijon. 1. 



Pasumot on prisms of ice. Roz. XXIII. 62. 



Franklin. Maiich. M. II. 357. 



Suspects that hail is formed in a very cold region, high in 

 the atmosphere. But this is not the most probable hypo- 

 thesis. 



Tessier's account of a hail storm extending 

 200 leagues. A, P. 1789- 6I8. 1790.263. 

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