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THE IIKIGIIT OK FUJINUYAMA. 



I:V I'KOKKSSOl! \V. S. ClIAl'IJN. 



T. Till.! following arii tin; |>i-iiici|ial nu'asiiri'nii'iits uhich have biMai iiiaile of 

 (lie heiirlit of Fiiiiiiovaiiia. 



1 



43-22 lactivs 



Alcuck 





2 



3987 



Fagan 







32r)() 



Williams 





4 



3518 



Li'pissier 





f) 



3729 



Isiiipliing (lirst calc-iila 



lion) 



C 



3820 



., ls<'conil 



) 



i 



3709 



St<'\vart 





8 



3772 



Fcntoii 





:) 



37(;s 



Favre-Hraiiilt 





10 



3823 



Nakaniiiia t^- Waila. 





11 



3793 



Sicliol.l 





|[. Till: nu'asunincnls from whicli j\Ii-- Knipiiini^ Las t-xkailatcil the liui,ij;lit 

 were niailo, iindur his diiectioii, by students of Kaisei Gakko (now Tokio Dai 

 (laku). Tlie observations were taken at the tenth station on the mountain, and 

 at Nuniadun, a town on the sea-coist distant about 1") miles in a direction 

 S. 30". E. from the statiiin on the maintain. Observations were made five 

 times daily, at 7 and 10 in the forenoon and at 2, 4 and 9 in the afternoon for 

 fifteen daj's, and each included a reading of the barometer, the thermometers 

 and the Psychrometer. For the first seven observations on the moxintain no 

 simultaneous observations were taken at Numadzu, so the observations on the 

 mountain were compiu'eil witli simultanei>us ones taken at Tokio. Mr. Kuipping 

 says that the observers were skilful and tliat their work may be relied on. 



Two calculations have been made to rind the heiglit from these data. The 

 result of the first calculation is found on jjage 7 of the 3d Heft of the 

 !\Iittheilungen der ll(!utschen Cresellschaft fuer Natur und Voelkerkiinde Ostas- 

 iens. In making the calculation Jlr. Knipping has used an approximate formula, 

 proposed by Ruhlm.anti for Wi^i' in (Central Euroiie. His results are 



7 A.M. 10 A.M. 2 P.M. 4 P.M. 9 P.M. 



3731 metres 3775 3784 3769 3726 



He has then taken a ni-iii of the results at 7 A.1\I. and 9 P.M.. as advised 

 in ^luellers I'liysics. and tbmid 3729 metres as the fuial result. 



The second calculation was made with I'auernfeinds formula, using the psy- 

 chronietric observations, whicli had not been used before, and which unfortunatelv 



