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Rodwell. Dictionary of Science. E. Moxon and Co., 1871.
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Scott, R. H., M.A., F.R.S. Instructions in the Use of Meteorological Instruments, 1875.
Warington, George. Phenomena of Radiation.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Actinometer | [10] |
| Æthrioscope | [16] |
| Altitude tables | [37] |
| Anemograph | [84] |
| Anemometers, velocity | [80] |
| Aneroid barometer | [35] |
| Atmidometer | [25] |
| Atmospheric electricity | [89] |
| Barograph | [38] |
| Barometer precautions | [40] |
| „ description of | [29] |
| „ construction of | [26] |
| „ self-recording | [36] |
| „ warnings | [43] |
| „ syphon | [30] |
| „ wheel | [33] |
| „ corrections of | [27] |
| Beaufort’s scale of wind force | [76] |
| „ weather notation | [82] |
| Black bulb in vacuo | [12] |
| Boiling-point thermometer | [36] |
| Calorification | [8] |
| Condensation | [45] |
| Capacity, correction | [27] |
| Capillarity, correction | [28] |
| Centigrade thermometer | [20] |
| Cirro-cumulus cloud | [56] |
| Cirro-stratus cloud | [56] |
| Cirrus cloud | [52] |
| Clouds, forms of | [52] |
| „ amount of | [57] |
| Compass bearings | [71] |
| Conversion of thermometer scales | [23] |
| Cumulo-stratus cloud | [56] |
| Cumulus cloud | [53] |
| Dew-point | [48] |
| Electrification | [86] |
| Electrometers, forms of | [90] |
| Electroscope | [89] |
| Evaporation, measurement of | [24] |
| Fahrenheit’s thermometer | [20] |
| Fortin’s barometer | [27] |
| Freezing-point | [20] |
| Frost, management of hygrometer in | [50] |
| Gold-leaf electroscope | [89] |
| Glass, storm | [41] |
| Heights, measurement of | [37] |
| Hours of observation | [39] |
| Howard’s cloud nomenclature | [52] |
| Hygrometer, Daniell’s | [47] |
| Hygrometer, Mason’s | [48] |
| Hygrometer precautions | [50] |
| Kew verification | [42] |
| Lightning | [90] |
| „ conductors | [91] |
| Mean sea-level | [28] |
| Maximum thermometers | [16] |
| Meteorology, list of works on | [4] |
| Minimum thermometers | [17] |
| Mountain barometers | [35] |
| Motion | [67] |
| Nimbus clouds, form of | [57] |
| Ozone, determination of | [91] |
| Ozonometer | [92] |
| Packing barometers | [32] |
| Position of barometers | [33] |
| Pyrheliometer | [9] |
| Pressure anemometer | [79] |
| Psychrometer | [49] |
| Radiation, solar | [9] |
| Radio-solar thermometer | [13] |
| Rain, measurement of | [60] |
| Rain gauges | [62] to [67] |
| Rarefaction | [26] |
| Réaumur’s scale | [20] |
| Regnault’s hygrometer | [47] |
| Robinson’s anemometer | [81] |
| Solar radiation | [9] |
| Six’s thermometer | [18] |
| Standard barometer | [28] |
| Stevenson’s thermo-screen | [51] |
| Stratus cloud | [55] |
| Suspension of barometers | [40] |
| Sympiesometer | [41] |
| Temperature, correction for | [27] |
| Terrestrial radiation | [13] |
| Thermographs | [23] |
| Thermometer scales | [20] |
| „ screens | [50] |
| „ radiation | [11], [14] |
| „ standard | [21] |
| True bearings of wind direction | [71] |
| Vernier, principle of | [30] |
| „ setting the | [31] |
| Weather warnings | [40], [44], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [73], [77], [94] |
| Wet and dry bulb hygrometer | [50] |
| Wind, registration of | [85] |
| „ gauges | [79] |
| „ scales | [76], [83] |
| „ vane | [78] |
PREFACE.
The late Admiral Fitzroy entertained the opinion that the various phenomena which go to form what we call “weather” are “measurable at any place, and that having these measurements at various places over a given area, such as the British Isles, we ought to be able to foresee the peculiar results as regards the direction and force of air currents which have their distinctive weather characteristics in relation to temperature, rainfall, and electrical manifestations.”
A conviction of the soundness of this opinion has induced the writer to make the present compilation, in the hope that many who have hitherto avoided the subject of meteorology and the weather may find interesting matter, where before all seemed dull and technical.