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SUMMARY AND CONTENTS OF PART II. 



General Summary, 

 Preliminary, . 

 Barometric Pressure, 

 Mean Temperature of the Air 

 Temperature Variability, 

 Rainfall, 



Droughts and Heavy Rains, 

 Direction of the Wind, 

 Mean Relative Humidity, 

 Thunderstorms, 

 Snow, 

 Had, 

 Gales, 



Fog or Mist, 

 Auroras, 

 Lightning, 



Hourly Sunshine Values, 

 Rainband Observations, 

 Solar and Terrestrial Radiation, 



Reduction of the Observations taken in 

 Edinburgh from June 1731 to May 1736, 

 Pressure, 

 Temperature, 

 Rainfall, 



Variability of Temperature, 

 Humidity, . 



Wind Direction, . . 



Gales, 



Fog or Mist, . 

 Thermal Windrose, . 

 Hygrometric Windrose, 

 General Results, 



Does the Weather move in Cycles ? 

 Days with Frost, 



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Appendix of Remarkable Atmospheric Pheno 



mena, ..... 93-108 



General Tables. Barometric Pressure, 109-115 



Table I. Mean Barometric Pressure from 



1769-1896, 



„ II. Highest Barometric Pressure in 



each Month Ifrom 1840-1896, . 



„ III. Lowest Barometric Pressure in 



each Month from 1840-1896, . 113 



109 



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Barometric Pressure — continued. 



Table IV. Monthly Range of Pressure, 



„ V. Summary of Pressure Ob- 



servations, . 

 „ VI. High and Low Pressures, . 



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Temperature Observations, . . 116-142 



Table VII. Mean Air Temperature from 



1764-1896, . . 116 



„ VIII. Reduction of the Edinburgh 



Advertiser Observations, . 119 



„ IX. & X. Reduction of the Edin- 

 burgh Magazine and Scots 

 Magazine Registers, . 120 



„ XI. Reduction of Waterston's 



Register, . . 122 



„ XII. Mean Temperature at Glen- 



doich, . . .123 



„ XIII. Extreme Daily Temperature 

 Values in each Year 1770- 

 1896, . . 124 



XIV. Highest Mean Daily Tem- 

 perature in each Month, 

 1857-1896, 



„ XV. Lowest Mean Daily Tem- 



perature in each Month, 

 1857-1896, . . 127 



„ XVI. Extreme Range in the Mean 



Daily Temperatures in each 

 Month, 1857-1896, . 128 



„ XVII. Greatest Daily Range of 

 Temperature in each 

 Month, 1857-1896, . 189 



„ XVIII. Synopsis of Thermometric 

 Observations from 1840- 

 1896, . . .130 



„ XIX. Abstract of Temperature 



Observations, 1764-1896, . 134 



„ XX. Low Day Maxima and 



High Night Minima, 

 1840-1896, . ■ 134 



„ XXI. to I Reduction of Adie's Obser- 

 XXIV. I vations, 1824-1831, 135-139 



„ XXV. & ) Mean Daily Variability of 



XXVI. ] Temperature, 1840-1896, WO 



