Mr. RedfieMs Second Reply to Dr. Hare. 253 



certain facts or results which I had stated;* and if the pretended 

 accusation and " denunciation" (!) of the meteorologists, which 

 is now charged upon me, can be made to cover Dr. Hare's seem- 

 ing discomfiture, perhaps I need not complain. By the ill cho- 

 sen phrase "whole school," was simply meant, all meteorologists 

 to whose writings I had obtained access. It was an inadvertent 

 form of expression, not particularly noticed by me till after pub- 

 lication, and has probably given more pain to myself than to 

 any one else. 



In adducing the quotation which refers to Sir John Herschel, 

 my opponent chooses to omit the preceding sentence, which no- 

 tices his recognition of the influence of the earths rotation on the 

 general winds ; this being the very cause which I then ventured 

 to suggest as the most influential in their production. That 

 Sir John Herschel has not thought himself accused and denoun- 

 ced in any of my remarks, I have good reason to believe. 



It may be well to inform my opponent that I am not one who 

 has " forgotten" that the aqueous ocean of the globe, no less than 

 the superincumbent atmosphere, is subject " to the gravitating 

 power" and the influence of " the rotary and orbitual motions of 

 our planet :"t But does he mean to maintain that these influences 

 must produce aqueous movements of equal velocity with those 

 of the same influences in the atmosphere — even as apart from 

 the question of gyration ? At a proper time there can be shown 

 him, not " torrents in the ocean," but a system of currents in the 

 several oceans, which fully exemplify the great physical truth 

 which he has volunteered to aid me in asserting. [Par. 45.] Nor 

 need he apprehend any conflict on my part with the views of 

 observant geologists: While his "perfect equilibrium" will be 

 found to preclude a "perfect" repose, either of the aerial or aque- 

 ous coverings of the planet. 



I had noticed Dr. Hare's error in alleging that I reject the in- 

 fluence of heat. In repeating this allegation, he now intimates 

 that " It is very possible that his opinions may have changed 

 since he read my ^^ objections f^ but that he did reject the 

 INFLUENCE OF heatJ whcu the preceding and following opin- 



* This Journal, Vol. xxvni, p. 316. 



t See this Journal, Vol. xxv, p. 131, also this volume, p. 152. 



I In casesof quotation, where it is proper to notice the bearing of particular words 

 or phrases, I adduce these in small capitals, as above ; but have not felt myself at 

 liberty to follow the example of Dr. Hare, in italicising sentences and fragmentary 

 quotations, as if they had been put forth in the same emphatic forms by the writer. 



