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[...] Agricultural Academies, 543 Agricultural Colleges at Proskau and Bombay, 502 “Air and Rain,” by A. R. Smith, Ph.D., F.R.S., 325 Airy (Sir G. B., F.R.S.) on Solar Outbursts and Magnetic Storms, 328 [...]
[...] Board of Trade and Beaufort's Wind Scale, 493 Bologna, Academy of Sciences, 440 Bombay, Destructive Rains, 502, 534; Magnetic Work, 352 Bone Cave in Bavaria, 87 Boue-setter, a Scientific, 82 [...]
[...] Gladstone (Rt. Hon. W. E., M.P.), his Speech at Civil En gineers' Banquet, I, 21 Glaisher's (Hall's Improved) Rain Gauge, Io; Glaisher (J. W. L.), Method of Least Squares, 140, 329; Hutton's Unpublished Trigonometrical Tables, 414 [...]
[...] Hall (Capt.), his Arctic Expedition, 414, 462 Hall (Charlotte), Eruption of Vesuvius in 1855, 43 Hall (J. J.), Improved Glaisher's Rain Gauge, 103; Phospho rescence in Fish, 456 Hall (Prof. Asaph), Method of Least Squares, IoI, 241 ; Hin [...]
[...] Porphyries of Antrim and Down (Br. A.), 384 Potato Disease, 389, 409, 431, 440; and Sun-spots, 542 Potts (Thos. H.), Preservation of New Zealand Birds, 5; Rain after Fire, 121 ; Bats in New Zealand, 162; Retention and Colouring of Eggs, 457 [...]
[...] Wanderings of the Esquimaux, 201 Railways and Science, 5 Io Rain aſter Fire, 121 Rain : “Air and Rain,” by A. R. Smith, Ph. D., F.R.S., 325 Rainbow, Circular, 534; Fringes of the, 435 [...]
[...] Rainbow, Circular, 534; Fringes of the, 435 Rainſall in 1871, 52 ; in Bombay, 534 Rain Gauge, Glaisher's, Improved by Hall, Io; Ramsay (Prof., F.R.S.), British Coal Fields, 283 Ranger (W. G.), Cats' Teeth, 456 [...]
[...] Skey (F. Carpenter, C.B., F.R.S.), his Death, 329 Smith (B. W., F.R.A.S.), Instantaneousness of Lightning, 242 Smith (R. A., Ph.D., F.R.S.), “Air and Rain,” 325 Smithsonian Institution, 305 Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), New Telescope ſor Edinburgh Observa [...]
[...] Thomson (Prof. Wyville, F.R.S.), Circumnavigating Expedi tion, 529 Thorpe (Prof. T. E.), on Dr. Smith's “Air and Rain,” 325 Thunderstorms, 293 Tiddeman (R. H., F.G.S.), Extinct Mammals in Caves at Settle, [...]
[...] Whales: Razor-back, Skeleton at Boston, U.S., 279; of the Antwerp Crag (Br, A.), 425 Whipple (G. Mathus), Meteorological Thermometers, 122; Rain fall in Bombay, 534 White (Dr. F. Buchanan, F.L.S.), Origin of Insects, 393 [...]
[...] surface.” He holds that the “willow leaves” are meteoric flights just falling into the sun ; that the spots are spaces upon which no meteors are raining ; that the periodicity of spots is due to the action of the planets in pulling “the [...]
[...] What is Yellow Rain P THE letter of Mr. A. Ernst in NATURE, May 25, on a recent case of “yellow rain,” possesses considerable interest to all who [...]
[...] currences. The confirmation, however, only extends so far, as proving that, a yellowish substance has been seen on bodies aſter a fall of rain. I can mention instances where sudden appearances have taken place, and would be called yellow rain, without the aid of ordinary rain. [...]
[...] More can be said upon this interesting subject; and on another occasion I hope to resume the investigation, by attempting to explain the “yellow rains” of a different kind to those treated of in this letter. John J.EREMIAH 43, Red Lion Street [...]
[...] Black Rain [...]
[...] The following notice of a shower of black rain, which has been sent to me by my friend Mr. G. J. A. Walker, of Norton Villa, near Worcester, though not so exact in its description as I [...]
[...] nature has fallen elsewhere. Mr. Walker's residence is about three miles south-east of Worcester, and he says, that after three or four hours of common rain on Tuesday June 6, it became sud denly dark about seven o'clock, P.M., and shortly after a rain like ink poured down for a quarter of an hour, after which light re [...]
[...] out in a field close by appeared as if they had been rolling in soot or in a coal hole. The black matter brought down with the rain was of an adhesive nature, and at Littleworth, within a mile of Norton, where this rain fell into some tubs, it was ob served to be as black as ink. This black rain was particularly [...]
[...] mile of Norton, where this rain fell into some tubs, it was ob served to be as black as ink. This black rain was particularly remarked, as clear ordinary rain had been falling for some hours on the day mentioned, but had ceased an hour previously to the commencement of this black downfall. The actual rain of that [...]
[...] The Solar Parallax.-Prof. S. Newcomb . . . . . . . . . 160 Halo in the Zenith.-R. M. BARRINGTon . . . . . . . . 160 What is Yellow Rain?—J. J.EREMiah . . . . . . . . . . 16o Black Rain.-E. LEE, F.L.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 A New View of Darwinism.—HENRY H. Howorth . . - 161 [...]
[...] Theory of Sun-spots, 164; Observations of Comets, 359 “Birmingham Saturday Half holiday Guide,” 225 Black Rain, Edwin Lee, F.L.S., on, 161 Blake (C. Carter), Cave Lion in the Peat, 27 Bland (Thos.), Conchology of the West Indies, 307 [...]
[...] Browning (John, F. R. A.S.), on a Universal Atmosphere, 487 Brussels Museum, Geological Collection at, 76 Buchan (Alexander), on Great Heat in Iceland, 202; on Rain fall in January and July (Br. A.), 358; on the Rainfall of Scotland (Br. A.), 398 [...]
[...] Eozoon Canadense, John B. Perry on, 28; Notes on, 7.2, 85 Ericsson (J.), the Temperature of the Sun, 204, 449 Ernst (A.), Yellow Rain in New Granad 1, 68 Erskine (Lieutenant Vincent), “Meteorology at Natal,” 305 Essex Institute, Salem, U.S., Proceedungs of, 43, 501 [...]
[...] nical Science (Br. A., Section G), 318 Jeremiah (John) on Daylight Auroras, 7, 47, 142 ; on Yellow Rain, 160 Jevons (Prof. W. Stanley), “Helmholtz on the Axioms of Geo metry,” 481 [...]
[...] Lectureships at London Medical Schools, 1, 61 Lee (Alec), “Romance of Motion,” 45 Lee (Edwin, F.L.S.) on Black Rain, 161 Leicester Literary and Scientific Society, 211 Leighton (Rev. W. A., F.L.S.), “The Lichen Flora of Great [...]
[...] at Natal, 305 Meteorology, Japanese Ignorance of, 435 ; Lieut. A. M. Davies, F.R.A.S., on, 159 ; Observations at Greenwich, Io.4; Rain after Fire, 83; Storm-Atlas for Norway, 63 (See Rainfall) Meteoric Stone found in Australia, 212 [...]
[...] (Ceratodus) discovered in, 406, 428, 447 Radford (W. T.), a Hint to the Longsighted, 142 Rain after Fire, G. P. Serocold on, 83 ; Chicago, 494 Rain, Black, Edwin Lee, F. R.S., on 161 Rain, Yellow, J. Jeremiah, on, 6S, 161 [...]
[...] Seeley (H. G.) on Ornithosauria, Ioo Sensation and Science, 177 Serocold (G.P.) on Rain after Fire, 83 Sewage, Prof. Corfield on, 287 Sharp and Dresser’s “Birds of Europe,” 398 [...]
[...] “Year Book of Facts,” Timbs's, 239 Year Book of Science Advocated by Sir W. Thomson, 264 Yellow Rain in New Granada, 68; J. Jeremiah on, 161 Young (Prof. C.A.) on the Solar Aurora Theory, 345; on the Solar Spectrum, 445; on an Explosion (?) on the Sun, 488 [...]
[...] Field (W.), on Hereditary Deformities, 7 Fielding (Dr. G. H.), on the Frost of 1870–71, 327 Fires, Rain produced by, 448 Fishes in the British Museum, Catalogue of 342 Fiume, Earthquake at, 269 [...]
[...] Lunar Halos, 245, 366, 407 “Lumière Cendrée,” Prof. H. G. S. Smith, F.R.S., on, 167 Lyall (W.), on a Wind-direction Rain-gauge, 448 [...]
[...] Rain Guage at Aldershot Camp, 509 Rain produced by Fires, 448 Ranyard (Arthur C., F.R.A.S.), Obituary Notice of Prof. De [...]
[...] Science in Paris during the Siege, 490 Rugby, Natural Science at, 372 Russell (R.), on Rain produced by Fires, 448 Russia, Archaeology in, 373 Russian American Telegraph, 74 [...]
[...] Winchester Scientific and Literary Society, 398, 414 Wind Charts of the Meteorological Office, 213, 232 Wind-Direction Rain-Gauge, by J. R. Napier, F.R.S., 433 Wind-Direction Rain-Gauge at Aldershot, 509 Wines of Victoria, 373 [...]
[...] Briggs (T. R. Archer), Flowers of the Primrose destroyed by Birds, 509 Black (W. J.), Rain-gauge at Sea, 63 Black Rain, 4 Blanford (W. T., F.G.S.), Glaciers in Hindostan, 63 [...]
[...] versity, 273, 490 * Godeffroy (Caesar), his Museum at Hamburg, 120 Goodenough (Capt. Jas. E., R.N.), Rain-Gauge at Sea, 63 Gore (Geo., F.R.S.), Electro-torsion, 215 Göttingen, Royal Society of Sciences, 176, 275, 496 [...]
[...] Hibberd (Shirley), “Amateur's Greenhouse and Conservatory,” 4 Hicks (Henry), Barrande and Darwinism, 261 Highton (E.), Black Rain and Dew Ponds, 43 , Hitzig (Dr.), Functions of the Brain, 249 [...]
[...] gellan Straits,471; Maritime, 461 ; Modification of Fitzroy's Signals, 390, 410; Ocean, 469 : Prof. Hough's Evapometer and Rain-gauge, 250 ; Publications of Committee of Board of Trade, 311 ; Results of the Polaris Expedition, 405; Observations of Sea-temperatures, 346; France and Den [...]
[...] Rainbow and its Reflection, 322 Rainfall, Periodicity of, 27 Rain-gauge at Sea, 63 Rain-gauge, Prof. Hough's, 250 “Races of Mankind,” by R. Brown, M.A., Ph.D., 279 [...]
[...] IN your issue for yesterday, March 30, at page 433, you give a paragraph respecting a “Wind-direction Rain-gauge.” Might I be allowed to observe that a gauge on the same principle has been in use at this place for many years, “it is arranged for four [...]
[...] Rain produced by Fires [...]
[...] IN your No. of Feb. 16, there is a letter from Mr. Laughton on the Artificial Production of Rains, which is worthy of notice from a strictly scientific point of view. I have little doubt that rains have been in comparatively rare cases caused by large fires. [...]
[...] occurs when the wind is from the west and the air dry, and naturally blue and bright till obscured by smoke. In such in stances the theory of fires producing rains justly enough becomes unpopular. On the other hand Espy laid down with great precision the [...]
[...] unpopular. On the other hand Espy laid down with great precision the conditions under which rains will result from great fires in “a high dew-point and a calm atmosphere.” In short, the air must be pretty well saturated with moisture, and verging upon that un [...]
[...] examples better known than the formation of the cumulus. Volcanoes are well known to produce at times clouds as well as rains. But all the vapour or heat that Vesuvius could emit during an active eruption would not produce rains when a strong and dry north-west wind was blowing across its top. So also [...]
[...] able atmospheric conditions I have lately been informed by Dr. Henry Washington that the Niagara cloud sometimes gives rise to rains and electrical phenomena. The true inference seems to be that great fires will not produce rain, excepting “the air is calm, and the dew-point high.” Rober T RUSSELL [...]
[...] Rain produced by Fires.—R. Russell . . . . . . . - 448 Bill to Establish The Metric System of Wrights AND MEAsures 448 Floating Islands iN Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 [...]
[...] by tradition, but demands proofs which will stand the test of rigid examination. In endeavouring to explain such phenomena as rain, epidemic diseases, the tides, &c., he will have nothing to do with spirits, good or bad ; he takes his stand on observed facts, and although his explanations [...]
[...] cataclysmic agencies, since, had it not been for their operations, our globe would have remained without any visible land for the rivers to traverse, or the rain and ice to disintegrate and wear away. The latter part of the statement cannot, of course, be called [...]
[...] able portion of the volume, and are illustrated by tables and some very curious and interesting drawings of the solid residue left on evaporating rain-water, which fell in London, on the Clyde, at Manchester, and at Newcastle. The volume closes with the annual address to the members of the Tyneside [...]
[...] incecis. It is especially when the atmosphere threatens some pertur bation, rain, storm, tempest, that the common people examine the character of the clouds. But how often, at every moment of the day, do they ask each other about the temperature, hot, [...]
[...] prosecuted. I am speaking of the gray and cloudy sky of Great Britain, whence are his Strato-mist, his imperfect distinction of the two strata Cirrus and Cumulus, or his AWimbus (the rain cloud), the difference which he has established between Cumulus and Cumulo-stratus, without counting many other details of [...]
[...] them and as they are generally described. These clouds are neither stormy, nor have they electrical manifestations, there is only a fine and continuous rain. Under this stratum—for it is a true stratum—we see constantly other clouds more or less considerable, but always isolated, come to be lost in it and to [...]
[...] proaches nearest the form of this species of cloud, all the deter minations have be on changed. The Pallio-cumulus replaces the Nimbus, also named “Rain-cloud.” [...]
[...] Cirrus, however, does not always precede the production of this and the last modification. “The Cirro-stratus precedes wind and rain, the near or dis tant approach of which may sometimes be estimated from its greater or less abundance and permanence. It is almost always [...]
[...] it. These two strata remain in view at a certain distance from each other, and by their reciprocal action and reaction produce storms and the heavier rains, accompanied with considerable electric discharges. They are electrified, but with contrary signs; the superior stratum of Cirrus is negative, and the inferior one [...]
[...] following abstract of it principally in the hope that it may lead to further inquiry and observation. The idea that large fires do, in some way, bring on rain, is very old ; but it was, I believe, for the first time stated as a fact and explained on scientific grounds by the late Professor Espy. His [...]
[...] current, and that the moisture which air near the surface always contains, is thus carried into the upper regions of the atmosphere to be condensed and to fall as rain. In support of this view, he has given several instances in which rain did immediately follow the kindling of a fire, when no clouds had previously been visible, [...]
[...] but in a problem of this nature, negative examples have more weight than positive ; and it is necessary to admit that, though in some very remarkable instances rain has followed a large fire, in other instances, quite as remarkable, there is no notice of rain. It is, of course, difficult to speak with absolute certainty; it may [...]
[...] of any break in the drought. . It is only by referring to excep tional and recent examples of this kind that we can feel any degree of certainty; wet weather and heavy rain are so common in this country, that under circumstances not very remarkable, they would scarcely be noticed ; and these instances I have just [...]
[...] they would scarcely be noticed ; and these instances I have just mentioned show the necessity for caution before attributing to fire and consequent rain the relationship of cause and effect; and, as bearing directly on Espy's theory, I may add that there are no observations which would show that the rainfall in our large [...]
[...] quake in Peru, in the latter part of the year 1868, I went care fully through the published accounts, but found no mention of any similar showers. In our own climate, in which rain is not uncommon at any time of the year, the circumstances require to be examined into more critically, and the evidence afforded by [...]
[...] for 1869, mentions several serious explosions of powder mills, collieries, &c., but not one of them is followed by any notice of remarkable weather, storm, or rain ; still, as one of these is the conflagration at Bordeaux on September 28th, which, as Mr. Belcher has pointed out, was followed by very heavy gales, [...]
[...] Rodney's action off St. Domingo, and many others, do not seem to have been followed by any interruption to the usual fine weather. Quatre-bras was followed by heavy rain ; but the night after Waterloo was fine, and the bright moonlight is specially mentioned as advantageous to the pursuers ; and though [...]
[...] contradictions in the evidence is this; that large fires, explosions, battles, and earthquakes, do tend to cause atmospheric disturbance, and especially, to induce a fall of rain; but that for the tendency to produce effect, it is necessary that other conditions should be suitable ; that rain does not follow, unless the lower air contain [...]
[...] tions, lay down. With the beginning of totality the air was colder than ever, and for about one minute's space, not more, there fell a small thin rain, which I fancy must have been the result of the condensation of the steamy mist which I have a little while ago described. Of totality [...]
[...] within recent times, we know as a historic fact. Macau lay has made us familiar with the damp fogs and per petual rain-clouds with which our island was invested during the period preceding the arrival of the Danes and the Saxons. Much of the amelioration of climate which [...]
[...] of so well-informed a journal as the Paſ/ Ma// Gazette, it is affirmed that this effect is due to the attraction exer cised by the trees on the rain-clouds. The principle by which trees act in effecting this is, however, at least mainly, by acting as pumps in drawing up the superfluous [...]
[...] sea by the natural drainage of the country, and proporº tionately to decrease the amount returned insensibly tº the atmosphere, which then condenses into rain and cloud. Within certain limits it is obvious that this must be an unmixed good ; but as the country becomº [...]
[...] ing constantly more frequent and of longer duration, brought terrible famine in their rear; and the swollen water-courses, when the rain did come, caused fearful devastations. The Government at length took the subject up, and in all our Indian Provinces the Conservancy of [...]
[...] and neglected districts. The effect is said to have been most beneficial. The fresh covering of the naked soil has prevented evaporation, and has allowed the rain to sink in instead of running off in destructive torrents ; and districts which a few years ago were abandoned to [...]
[...] is impossible to determine the rainfall over the ocean; ” and it occurred to me that it is possible to do something in that line approximately. Is the Chaſſenger supplied with rain gauges 2 Would it not be possible to determine in some measure the hourly amount of rainfall over the ocean, in the zones of [...]
[...] solving some of the problems connected with the working out of the law of cyclones 2 Another suggestion has occurred to me—that is, that rain gauges might be placed in “floating lights,” and the rainfall at sea thus obtained. I need not now inquire through what channel [...]
[...] I Do not know whether the following notice is worthy of ad mission into NATURE, but it suggests many interesting conse. quences as the effects of heavy rains over continents drained by large rivers. A very intelligent naturalist, writing to me from Tobago, [...]
[...] most of the islands in these seas, have been suffering for many months from a protracted drought. Have there been excessive rains on the Continent 2 Tobago is at least 150 miles from the mouth of the Orinoco, and 9oo miles from that of the Amazon. It is well known that [...]
[...] solar spectrum. The rainbow itself is also in reality nothing more nor less than a solar spectrum, which is caused by refraction in the rain-drops. If, instead of getting one beam of white light, we take two of differently coloured lights, red and blue, and pass [...]
[...] WHILST we have been literally overwhelmed with rain in this country for the last three months, it is interesting to hear that in Tientsin in China there was so little snow in the winter, and [...]
[...] country for the last three months, it is interesting to hear that in Tientsin in China there was so little snow in the winter, and hardly any rain has fallen since, that the peasantry are com plaining of the want of water, and consequent injury to the crops. [...]
[...] light. Cloud far exceeded that of January and its own average. Prevalent wind, N.W., strong. Great precipitation, nearly doubling the average amount, and especially large in rain. One fog, and sleighing from the 1st to 25th. On the 9th strong, east gale in morning, and blowing at night from the west. ... March [...]
[...] that month. Pressure still extremely light. Cloud in decided defect. Prevalent wind N.N.W., with mean force great. Pre cipitation, both of rain and snow, small. Only one fog. Eleven days of sleighing. Three gales, all more or less eastwardly. wild geese (Anser Canadensis) passed over on their nºrtherly [...]
[...] déficient. A peculiar direction of wind was prevalent–E.S.E. Mean force small. Precipitation close to average; rain being abundant, but snow only one inch. Five fogs recorded. First thunder and lightning this year on the 12th. One short [...]
[...] this station for at least twelve years. Mean pressure low. Great want of cloud. Light winds; direction S. 59° W. ; velocity 8"I miles per hour. Rain, 321 inches, being much above average. Four fogs. Thunder and lightning twice. August was warm also. Mean pressure almost identical with July, being [...]
[...] was warm also. Mean pressure almost identical with July, being 29'659. Very little cloud. Wind, resultant direction, N. 77° W. Mean velocity Io'5 miles per hour. Rain scanty, giving but 2:20 inches. Fogs three. Thunder and lightning thrice. September mean temperature 57°20, having fallen 7°-60 below August. [...]
[...] atmosphere never descended to freezing point. Mean pressure still low, and cloud also deficient. Wind, resultant direction N. 15° W., and mean velocity only Io:6 per hour. Rain, half an inch less than average. Three fogs. IIoar frost on the 30th. Thunder once. Lightning twice. Three gales. October had [...]
[...] perature 30°. Pressure very low. Much cloud. Resultant direction of wind N. 76° W., and mean velocity II 6 miles per hour. Rain was heavy, and snow small, though con taining larger amount of water than average. One fog, Four days' sleighing. On Christmas Eve thermometer reached [...]
[...] Manufacture of Russian Sheet-Iron : J. Percy, D.—The Quarterly Weather Report of the Meteorological Office.—Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 1870-71.-Papers on the Cause of Rain, &c. : G. A. Rowell. AMERICAN.—Report of the Committee on Building Stores to the Board of [...]
