Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, Bände 17-18Edward Stanford, 1882 |
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Seite 181 - Treasurer, Henry Perigal, FRAS, Trustees: Hon. Francis Albert Rollo Russell, Stephen William Silver, FRGS, Secretaries: George James Symons, FRS, John William Tripe, MD...
Seite 66 - METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE usual monthly meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday, the 20th inst., at the Institution of Civil Engineers (Mr.
Seite 16 - Leclanche galvanic battery. The instrument is read by depressing a key, which causes the needle of the galvanometer to deflect ; a pointer or vernier (moving a contact roller upon a wire in a circular groove) is then pushed to the right or to the left upon a divided scale until the needle remains stationary on the zero point, when the electrical resistance of the wire is measured upon the scale. The number indicated by the vernier is then read off, and by referring to a table of equivalents, the...
Seite 180 - ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE Annual General Meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday evening, the 2ist instant, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, Westminster, Mr.
Seite 5 - ... amount of recognition and support, and to maintain that high position among kindred societies which it at present holds.
Seite 14 - Beloochistan, though the natives expect the weather to change soon after the fall of rain, which takes place about the end of July and beginning of August. Compared with that of the plains, the climate is delightful. The actual heat is greater than in England, especially the intensity of the sun's rays, but the weather is less variable. Fruits and crops, as a rule, ripen earlier, and are not exposed to the ' vicissitudes of the English climate. The atmosphere is clear and pure, the air dry and bracing.
Seite 151 - ... and for a longer time ahead ; (3) we can by their means correct statistical results by giving the real test of identity of recurrent weather which no single item such as heat, cold, rain, &c., can do ; (4) they enable us to treat such geological questions as the influence of changing distribution of land and sea on climate in a more satisfactory manner than any other method. — On the use of kites for meteorological observation, by Prof.
Seite 75 - Kepertorium der deutschen Meteorologie. Leistungen der Deutschen in Schriften, Erfindungen und Beobachtungen auf dem Gebiete der Meteorologie und des Erdmagnetismus von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum Schlüsse des Jahres 1881.
Seite 17 - METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. The usual Monthly meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday evening, December the llth, at the Institution of Civil Engineers; Mr.
Seite 160 - ABSENCE. — Every observer should train some one as an assistant ; but where this is not possible, instructions should be given that the gauge should be emptied at 9 am on the 1st of the month, and the water bottled, labelled, and tightly corked, to await the observer's return. XIV. — HEAVY RAINS.