5i8 
[September, 
The Velocity of Light . 
represents the solar disturbance in the stratum air. this 
water-stuff, all originating from the sea, being lifted and 
carried in orbits through the air by the differentiating power 
of the sun. 
I showed that the atmosphere is on the day-side by the 
reaction of solar centrifugality and terrestrian attraction 
against solar attraction and terrestrian centrifugality, and 
on the night-side by the joint attraction of sun and earth 
against the centrifugal tendencies of the earth confined 
within a definite boundary by an outer atmosphere. 
The ascending vapour, the 1^(333 x 59*56) of the mass of 
the sea, is thus confined between a gaseous skin and a liquid 
and solid stratum. Circulating in the air the water-stuff, 
with its varying forms, becomes the conveyer and distributor, 
the propagator and the obstacle, of light and radiant heat 
in the atmosphere, — that is, of the action of the mass, at- 
mosphere, and molecules of the sun, &c., on the mass and 
molecules of the outside earth. 
We thus have the initial or vacuum velocity of light at 
the outside limit of the atmosphere, B representing the 
mean velocity of the earth in her orbit round the sun. 
Formula a 
(1-333 x i- 59 - 56) = v JJgVx B) x (333 x 59-56) 
= A, the velocity of light in a second = 305,686,092 
metre. 
Do the following coincidences not offer a strong proba- 
bility in favour of my reasoning ? I showed (o. s. p.) that 
the fresh sea is 1^-3546, and the salt sea 1^3426, of the 
mass of the earth, and that the earth has in either sense, 
equatorial and polar, apart of the flattening, an excentricity 
of 1^3546. Observation gives the index of refraction of air 
at o° C., under 760 m.m. pressure, 1*000294 ; when we take 
the air with the water-stuff and the 15*22° C. it is — 
1 ^3426 = 0*000294, 
the 1-3546 giving =0*000282. 
(To be continued.) 
