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reach their maximum in the evening, when the aérial absorption 
of heat from the sun ceases to be in excess of its radiation, and 
y their minimum in the morning, when radiation ceases to be 
pe. See than absorption. 
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. 6. That the effects of temperature upon atmospheric pressure 
. That the daily temperature tide increases, while the rota- 
tion tide diminishes, as we approach the poles. 
8. That, in consequence of rotation, there should be a slight 
tendency to vertical ascending currents at 44 and 164, and de- 
scending currents at 105 and 22h, 
9. That, whatever modifications the table may require, there’ 
can be no doubt of the existence of the three tides, with maxima 
and minima near the times specified, or of the possibility and 
Art. XXXIX.—A new Meteoric Iron from Wayne County, Ohio. 
—-Some remarks on the recently described Meteorite from Atacama, 
Chili; by J. LAwRENcE SairH, Prof. Chem. Med. Dep. Uni- 
versity of Louisville. 
Meteoric Iron of Wayne Co., Ohio. 
THE existence of a mass of meteoric iron from Wayne county, 
Ohio, has been known to me for some years; but I have delay 
Noticing its existence, hoping to obtain the mass and thus give a 
more complete description of it than I am able to do. 
My attention was first called to it by Prof. James C. Booth, of 
e U.S. Mint at Philadelphia, it having been brought to him 
by Peter Williams, of Wooster, Wayne county, Qhio, who sup- 
osed it to be a mass of silver or some other precious metal, 
Prof Booth saw at once that it was meteoric iron, and tried to 
Procure it from Mr. Williams; but from some notion of its pos- 
sessing considerable intrinsic value, he retained it, and since that 
time both the iron and Mr. Williams have been lost sight of. 
3 Prof. Booth detached a small perses “ i Be which spe- 
men he placed at my disposal, with the following memoran- 
d | Me eoric fhe ween me in 1858 by Peter Williams, of 
Vooster, Wayne county, Ohio. It was a rounded mass, weigh- 
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