A contraction of rules for foretelling weather--in accordance with the following pages--is submitted, for scales of common barometers. RISE FALL FOR FOR N. ELY. S. WLY. NW.-N.-E. S...
In the year 1853 a conference of maritime nations was held at Brussels, on the subject of meteorology at sea. The report of this conference was laid before Parliament, and the resu...
Familiar as the practical use of weather-glasses is, at sea as well as on land, only those who have long watched their indications, and compared them carefully, are really able to...
On the recommendation of the Kew Observatory Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. This instrument should be suspended in a good light for reading, b...
The daily movement of the barometer may be noted (in a form or table of double entry) at the time of each observation, by a dot at the place corresponding to its altitude, and the...
In this part of the world, towards the higher latitudes, the quicksilver ranges, or rises and falls, nearly three inches--namely, between about thirty inches and nine-tenths (30.9)...
Although the preceding remarks are probably sufficient for their principal purpose--these pages may fall into the hands of persons familiar with the subject, to whom the following...
In the previous observations, general reference has been made to mercurial barometers of the ordinary kind; but, excepting the construction of the instruments themselves, those obs...