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the blood as Mr. Acton supposes, or whether it be not en- 

 tirely converted into carbonic gas as Mr. Ellis maintains, I 

 do not presume to venture a decided opinion : but I must 

 be allowed to say, that, notwithstanding the numerous ex^ 

 periments of Mr. Acton in behalf of the former opinion, the 

 latter lias received no inconsiderable support from the re- 

 cent experiments of Dalton and Thompson*, and Messrs. 

 Allen and Pepysf. 



XI. 



Letter from Mr. Robert "Bancks concerning the Meteoro- 

 logical Journal. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON, 

 SIR, 



Height of the AN consequence of the letter of your anonymous corre- 

 thertneimete-. S p ndent, which you had the goodness to show me agreea- 

 bly to his permission, I have been endeavouring to discover 

 the cause of my statement of the height of the thermometer 

 not agreeing precisely with those of others, particularly on 

 the hottest day of July 1808. 



Situation of q^ e account f t ' ne situation of the instruments has been 



themsliu- . 



ments. given in your 21st volume, p. 79. 1 hist placed with my 



thermometers two or three by other makers, the best I couid 

 procure: but could fand no difference worth notice. When 

 standing near them indeed a little while with a friend, to 

 examine and compare them attentively, we repeatedly found, 

 that the thermometer near&st to which we stood always rose 

 a little the highest: no doubt owing to the heat commu- 

 nicated from our bodies. 

 The heat not From the circumstance however, that the thermometer 



corn m mealed , hi 



quickly appeared to give generally too low a temperaltire for the 



enough to the highest* and too high for the lowest, when they deviated 



alr# from the Journal of the Royal Society; I was induced to 



suppose, that the air contiguous to them might be too slow 



* Sy h t. Chetn. vol.V, 3d ;idit. f Phil. Trails. 1803. 



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