Hall of the Institute, Feb. 15, 1882

✍ Scribed by William H. Wahl

• Book ID: 103089227
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1882
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Volume: 113
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(82)90176-4

✦ Synopsis

Frank. Inst., in connection with previous 1)ropositions, '' it may be questioned if the deductions of Section I can be allowed as conclusive in governing the cosmic propositions of Section II. The writer of this notice thinks the author in common with many other book writers and storm authorities fidls to appreciate the extreme thinness of the layers of atmosphere and of water in coml)'lrison to the superficial extent with which they lmve to deal and the enormous prel)onderancc of local over general disturl)anecs. Beside this, in the matter of aerial currents, there remains a remark of Sir John Leslie, seventy or eighty years since, on the positive direction of a cnrrcnt of air and the ettk~ct of the globular tbrnl of the earth when bodies in tangential nlovenlent crossed any locality. Together with some general assertion that a ('loud or rain is at all times an ascending current, and clear weather a descending current of lnore or less intensity. On the whole it is hard to discern where the field of useflflness of this second section comes in, fi~r it certainly lays down no laws of practical apl)lieation.

Still the book must I)e recommended to students in physics as an extremely wduable contril)ution to s('icncc likely to awaken interest and induce stud)'. R.B.