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Side vi
... illustrated by the excep- tional weather of last year ( 1867 ) , the chief instances adduced being the mild weather of February ; the un- precedentedly cold weather of March , which proved so injurious to vegetation ; the cold weather ...
... illustrated by the excep- tional weather of last year ( 1867 ) , the chief instances adduced being the mild weather of February ; the un- precedentedly cold weather of March , which proved so injurious to vegetation ; the cold weather ...
Side vii
... illustrated by the Great Hurricane which was so severely felt at Edinburgh on the 24th Jan- uary 1868. The observations made by observers of the Scottish Meteorological Society at the time , supplied the materials for placing the ...
... illustrated by the Great Hurricane which was so severely felt at Edinburgh on the 24th Jan- uary 1868. The observations made by observers of the Scottish Meteorological Society at the time , supplied the materials for placing the ...
Side 15
... illustrated than by Torricelli's experiment . Take a glass tube ( fig . 1 ) , 33 inches in length , open at one end ; fill it with mercury , and , closing the open end with the finger , invert it , and plunge the open end into a bowl ...
... illustrated than by Torricelli's experiment . Take a glass tube ( fig . 1 ) , 33 inches in length , open at one end ; fill it with mercury , and , closing the open end with the finger , invert it , and plunge the open end into a bowl ...
Side 49
... illustrated in different places in Plate I. 102. In the North Pacific , where at this season the two trade- winds meet and mingle , there occurs a belt of low pressure , D caused by the vapour accumulated by these constant winds . ITS ...
... illustrated in different places in Plate I. 102. In the North Pacific , where at this season the two trade- winds meet and mingle , there occurs a belt of low pressure , D caused by the vapour accumulated by these constant winds . ITS ...
Side 83
... illustrations of conduction in meteorology , are the propagation of the changes of tempera- ture downwards through the earth's strata from the surface as it is heated during the day or cooled during the night ; and the communication of ...
... illustrations of conduction in meteorology , are the propagation of the changes of tempera- ture downwards through the earth's strata from the surface as it is heated during the day or cooled during the night ; and the communication of ...
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