34 Prof. Loomis’s Remarks upon Prof. Everett's Article. 
The interval from minimum to maximum is 202 days; and from 
maximum to minimum 168 days. The difference is 39 days. 
Comparing the temperatures for 30, 60 and 90 days before and 
after the maximum we find 
June 29. 14°44 Aug. 28, 18°74 Difference—0°-70 R.=—1°58 Fah. 
May 30. 12 ‘61 Sept.27. 10 O07 “= 2°54 Tim 
Apr. 30. 8°89 Oct. 27. 5°56 “  —3°33 =m—7°49 & 
At Danzig the maximum temperature occurs July 30; and 
the minimum Jan. 8th. The interval from minimum to maxt- 
mum is 208 days, and from maximum to minimum 162 days. 
The difference is 41 days. Comparing the temperatures before 
and after the maximum we find 
June 30. 12°76 Aug. 29. 12°27 Difference—0°49 R.=—1°-10 Fah. 
May 31. 10°30 Sept. 28. 8 -02 a —2 28 sae 
May 1. 6°21 Oct. 28. 3°88 as —2°33 =—65 +24 * 
At Breslau the maximum temperature occurs July 81; and 
the minimum Jan. 10th. The interval from minimum to maxi 
mum is 202 days; and from maximum to minimum 163 days. 
The difference is 89 days. Comparing the temperatures before 
and after the maximum we find 
July 1. 18°71 Aug. 30. 13°19 Difference — 0°52 R.=—1°-17 Fah. 
June 1. 12°06 Sept. 29. 9°36 «2-70 Ee 
May 2. 8°86 Oct. 29. 4°88 «3-98 
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The results at these three stations accord remarkably well | 
with each other, and we must regard them as indicating the law — 
of climate for that part of Europe. These results also acco 
pretty well with those obtained at Greenwich; but the decrease — 
of temperature in autumn is more rapid at the German stations — 
than it isin England. The average temperature at the three — 
German stations 90 days after the maximum, is less than the tem- 
maximum about July 20th; making an interval of 7 months — 
from minimum to maximum, and of 5 months from maximum 
to minimum 
We conclude then that any formula which supposes the curvé 
of annual temperature to be symmetrically divided at the point 
of maximum, does not represent climates like those above spec — 
fied, with that degree of accuracy which science requires. 
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