106 On the Law of Storms in the 
to any that I have seen before in the colony: it well deserves 
further exploration. Specimens of the rock formations which 
I have seen are placed in the Museum. 
I have, &c., 
JOSEPH MILLIGAN. 
The Hon. 
The Colonial Secretary. 
XII. On the Law of Storms in the Pacific and High 
Southern Latitudes. By Tuomas Dosson, Esgq., B.A., 
Head Master, High School, Hobart Town. {Read 
12th November, 1851. ] 
THE importance of a practical knowledge of the Law of 
Great Storms has induced me to draw up a brief exposition 
of their most striking phenomena. In bringing this subject 
under the notice of the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land, 
I am not without a hope of securing the co-operation of its 
members in the desirable attempt to develop the Law of the 
Progressive Motion of the Storms of the Pacific Ocean, and 
of those of High Southern Latitudes. 
Information on these points of the theory may reasonably 
be looked for by the scientific world from a Society placed 
in the very field of observation, in a comparatively high 
southern latitude, and comprising the scientific represen- 
tatives of a community largely interested in maritime pur- 
suits. 
The laws of the great hurricanes which traverse the low 
and middle latitudes of the North Atlantic and Indian 
