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Notes on some recent Barometric Disturbances. 
By H. C. Russett, B.A., F.R.A.S., Government Astronomer. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 5 December, 1877.) 
ricanes are well known. Fitz Roy Fatal that a fall in Bees of 
one-tenth of an inch hour presaged a storm. he tropics, 
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beicuinhed is that in the hurricane of sr 21st, 1833, reelen the 
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sudden fall set in, in the most remarkable manner it has ever 
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Dune the time these changes were being ohne d, the anemo- 
meter recorded a change i in the direction of wind right round the 
