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. VIU CONTENTS. 



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 Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney on the Amount of the direct Magnetic Effect of the 

 Sun or Moon on Instruments at the Earth's Surface 47 



Mr. Charles Tomlinson on Lightning Figures, chiefly with reference to those 

 Tree-like or Ramified Figures sometimes found on the Bodies of Men and 

 Animals that have been struck by Lightning 48 



Meteorology. 



Mr. J. Ashe on the Causes of the Phenomena of Cyclones 49 



Mr. John Allan Broun on the supposed Connexion between Meteorological 

 Phenomena and the Variations of the Earth's Magnetic Force 49 



Mr. William Danson on the Law of Universal Storms 52 



Mr. William Fairbairn on the Temperature of the Earth's Crust, as exhi- 

 bited by Thermometrical Returns obtained during the sinking of the Deep 

 Mine at Dukinfield 53 



Rear-Admiral FitzRoy's Tidal Observations 56 



Dr. J. H, Gladstone on the Distribution of Fog around the British Isles 57 



Mr. James Glaisher on a Deep-Sea Thermometer invented by Henry John- 

 son, Esq 53 



— ■ on a Deep-Sea Pressure-Gauge invented by Henry John- 

 son, Esq 59 



on a Daily Weather Map ; on Admiral FitzRoy's Paper 



presented to Section A. relative to the Royal Charter Storm ; and on some 

 Meteorological Documents relating to Mr. Green's Balloon Ascents 61 



Mr. J. T. GoDDARD on the Cloud Mirror and Sunshine Recorder 61 



Professor Hennessy on the Connexion Jbetween Storms and Vertical Disturb- 

 ances of the Atmosphere 61 



Mr. William Hopkins on the Theories of Glacial Motion 61 



Mr. W. S. Jevons on the Deficiency of Rain in an Elevated Rain-Gauge, as 

 caused by Wind 62 



Mr. H. W. Crawley on a Solar Halo observed at Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova 

 Scotia, August 13, 1861 63 



Mr. Peter J. Livsey's Description of a Mercurial Barometer, recently invented 

 by Mr. Richard Howson, Engineer of Middlesborough-on-Tees 64 



Mr. E. J. Lowe on the Great Cold of Christmas I860, and its destructive 

 Effects 64 



Letter from Captain Maury on the importance of an Expedition to the Antarctic 

 Regions, for iMeteorological and other scientific purposes. (Communicated by 

 the Lords Commitsioners of the Admiralty) 65 



Mr. John E. Morgan on an Anemometer for Registering the Maximum Force 

 and extreme Variation of the Wind 72 



Rev. T. Rankin's Meteorological Observations at Huggate, Yorkshire 73 



Mr. C. W. Siemens on a Bathometer, or Instrument to indicate the Depth of 

 the Sea on Board Ship without submerging a Line 73 



Mr. Balfour Stewart on a New Minimum Mercurial Thermometer proposed 

 by Mr. Casella 74 



Mr. G. J. Symons on British Rain-fall 74 



Rev. W. Walton on some Signs of Changes of the Weather 74 



