406 MR. JOSEPH BAXENDELL ON RAIN. 



Should the supposition, that a considerable portion of 

 the aqueous vapour in the atmosphere may lose its latent 

 heat without becoming visible, as cloud or fog, be held to 

 be inadmissible, it appears to me that we shall then have 

 no alternative but to conclude that the generally received 

 theory of latent heat is inapplicable to meteorological 

 phenomena, — a conclusion at least as questionable as the 

 view which I have ventured to advance. 



