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Eastern States, preceded by northeastern wind and rain, and 
these latter followed necessarily by low barometer and westerly 
, p. 18). 
_ To Sir Wm. Reid and W. C. Redfield, (this Journal, 1881) 
is due a clear analysis of the elements of storms and the deduc- 
Western Atlantic, Espy (Philosophy of Storms, 1841, and Re- 
ports, 1854), and Loomis (on the Storms of 1836, 1842, ) 
i i i the 
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labors of this noble Institution, and from the very beginning 
feasibility of 
mis, in the following extracts from the annual Smithsonian 
ports of the respective years. 
* Meteorological studies were actively carried on by the Joint Committee of the 
American Phil’ Soc. and of the Franklin Institute, from 1834 to 1838, Professor 
Espy being chairman, and were furthered by the Franklin Kite Club in the latter 
See Vienna Acad. Sitzungsberichte. 
ais first published suggestion that I have found is by the lamented Redfield; 
ournal, Sept. 1846. 
“Tn the Atlantic ports, the approach of a gale may be made known by means 
= the electric telegraph, which probably will soon extend from Maine to the 
: i pi &e.” 
even in the present imperfect state of our knowledge of storms, &c.” 
the “ Rotel Hex Yorker” of the following year; also the “ Boston Cou- 
