Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 21Royal Meteorological Society., 1895 Phenological report contained in vols. 3-71, issued as a supplement to vols. 73-74, missing from vols. 56-58, 60-62. |
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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 10 Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) Affichage du livre entier - 1884 |
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Page 59 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 137 - Chair during the past year, and for his Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed in the Quarterly Journal of the Society.
Page 18 - From the base there usually fall local showers of rain or of snow (occasionally hail or soft hail). Sometimes the upper edges have the compact form of Cumulus, forming into massive peaks round which the delicate " false Cirrus " floats, and sometimes the edges themselves separate into a fringe of filaments similar to that of the Cirrus cloud. This last form is particularly common in spring showers. The front of...
Page 83 - Annual Summary of Births, Deaths, and Causes of Death in London and other great towns, 1892.
Page 53 - Other fallacies about the moon are numerous, such as that the full moon clears away the clouds ; that you should only sow beans or cut down trees in the wane of the moon ; that it is a bad sign if...
Page 234 - These show very much lower differences between the forest and the clearances than resulted from the ordinary thermometer screen. But Dr. Ebermayer goes on to show that this result is mainly due to the type of screen in use in North Germany, and that the results obtained from the mode of exposure in Bavaria agree very closely with those obtained by the aspirating apparatus. — Der Fohn vom 13 Januar 1895 am Nordfuss der Alpen und die Bildung einer Theildepression daselbst : von R. Billwiller (9 pp.)-...
Page 137 - It was proposed by Mr. ELLIS, seconded by Mr. BREWIN, and resolved :— " That the best thanks of the Royal Meteorological Society be communicated to the President and Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers for having granted the Society free permission to hold its Meetings in the rooms of the Institution.
Page 57 - Af1er being paid, they knitted three magical knots, and told the buyer that when ho untied the first he would have a good gale ; when the second, a strong wind ; and when the third, a severe tempest.1 Sir Walter Scott also mentions that King Eric, also called " Windy Cap," could change the direction of the wind by merely turning his cap round upon his head ; and old Scotch women are mentioned who, for a consideration, would bring the wind from any desired...
Page 167 - The question proposed for consideration was how far the apparent motion of a cloud was a satisfactory indication of the motion of the air in which the cloud is formed. The mountain cloud cap was cited as an instance of a stationary cloud formed in air moving sometimes with great rapidity; ground fog, thunder clouds and cumulus clouds were also referred to in this connection.
Page 54 - ... sought to prove that this fact rules our weather. It has undoubtedly been found that the frequency of sun spots and the variations of the magnetic needle are intimately connected ; and it is almost equally well established that the aurora appears and disappears in some sort of sympathy with the sun spot variations. But this, up to the present, is as far as we can get in this direction, for our weather seems to have no relation whatever to these changes.