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we have made during the continuation of our researches?" — I 

 am not disposed to alter anything that I have published ; I 

 have even more confidence than before in my own views ; for 

 had their observations been in agreement with the results 

 which I had obtained, I should have had great reason, after 

 my examination of their papers, to fear that my own ideas 

 were erroneous. 



I cannot conclude this letter without again expressing my 

 regret at having been obliged to write it ; but if it be recol- 

 lected that Messrs. Nobili and Antenori's memoirs were 

 written and published after my original memoirs; that their 

 last paper appeared even in the Annates de Chimie et de Phy- 

 sique after mine ; and that it had consequently the appear- 

 ance of advancing the science further than I had done; that 

 both papers accuse me of error in experiment and theory, 

 and also of dishonesty ; that the last of these papers is dated 

 in March, and though it is now December, has been followed 

 by no correction or retractation on the part of the authors ; 

 and that I sent them several months ago (at the same time 

 that I forwarded them to you and others,) copies of my ori- 

 ginal memoirs, and of my notes to a translation of their first 

 memoir; and if it be considered that, after all, I have not to 

 reproach myself with the errors of which I am accused, and 

 that these gentlemen's memoirs are so framed as to compel 

 me to reply to their objections ; — I hope that no one will say 

 that I have written too hastily what might have been avoided ; 

 or that I should have shown respect for the truth, and done 

 justice to my own publications, or to this branch of science, 

 if, being aware of such important errors, I had not called 

 attention to them. I am, my dear Sir, yours very sincerely, 



M. Faraday. 



LIV. On the Law of Storms. By H. W. Dove. 



To Richard Taylor, Esq. 

 Editor of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal. 

 Dear Sir, 



IN the year 1828, I published in PoggendorfF's Annalen, 

 vol. xiii. p. 596, a memoir " On Barometric Minima," in 

 which I established the fact, that the storm which accom- 

 panies a great depression of the barometric column is a vast 

 whirlwind, which in the northern hemisphere proceeds from 

 S.W. to N.E. The example there more especially investigated 

 is the storm of the 24th of December, 1821, the centre of 



