82 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



First Report of the Joint Committee of the American Phi- 

 losophical Society, and Franklin Institute, on Meteoro- 

 logy. 



99. The Joint Committee of the American Philosophical 

 Society, and the Franklin Institute of the State of Penn- 

 sylvania, return thanks for valuable meteorological journals, 

 received from the following gentlemen : 



Mr. R. H. Gardiner, Gardiner, Maine. 



Mr. Jacob Mull, U. S. Navy, Portsmouth, N. Hampshire. 



Mr. James Porter Hart, Farmington, Mass. 



Professor Caswell, Providence, R. I. 



Mr. A. W. Smith, Middletown, Conn. 



Mr. Edward Gibbons, Lockport, N. Y. 



Mr. C. Gill, Flushing, Long Island. 



Dr. R. H. Rose, Silver Lake, Pa. 



Dr. Henry Gibbons, Wilmington, Del. 



Dr. G. S Sproston, U. S. Navy, Baltimore, Md. 



Dr. J. M. Foltz, U. S. Navy, Washington city, D. C. 



Professor James Hamilton, Nashville, Tenn. 



Dr. John Locke, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Mr. J. Panglos, Urbana, Ohio. 



Only four months have elapsed since the reception of the 

 earliest of these journals, arid already some valuable facts 

 have been deduced from a comparison of the simultaneous 

 observations which they contain. 



A detailed report of all general conclusions, with the data 

 on which they are founded, will be given hereafter ; but 

 as this will require a considerable length of time, and a 

 much more extensive collation of journals than the com- 

 mittee have yet in their possession, they will mention, with 

 a view to increase the zeal of their correspondents, one or 

 two facts, which, from further observations, will probably 

 lead to important general laws. 



