Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...Association at Bonn. The attraction of such an assemblage will be greatly heightened by the beauty of the country around the place of Meeting, and the neighbouring Siebeugebirge, Laacher See, and Cifel will present especial objects of interest to the Geologist. There will be sufficient time to go to Bonn after the Meeting of the British Association in Dublin, and we hope that our own country will be worthily represented in all the departments of physical and medical science. Those who mean to go will do well to give notice in due time; in order that they may not be disappointed as to accommodations. We know that in the true Spirit of German hospitality the Committee are anxious to provide comfortable quarters for all strangers; but the town is small, and therefore they should get as early notice as possible. Letters should be addressed to Professor Noeggerath. III.--Remarks on the Temperature of the Baltic.--Extract of a Letter from Alexander Humboldt to M. Poggendorff. CPogg. Ann. xxxiii. 233.) Peculiar contingencies of an active Hfe have made me sail over the Pacific and Caspian seas sooner than the Baltic, which lies Senear my native country. In two little voyages which I made lately, in the Russian steam-vessel Ischora, from Stettin to Konigsberg, and in the Prussian steam-vessel, Frederick William, from Konigsberg to Dantzic and Stettin, I occupied myself entirely with the variations of temperature at the surface of the Baltic. The phenomenon of an extraordinary fall of the thermometer, to a point from 48-2 to 51 "8 Fahr. appeared to me very extraordinary. Perhaps other observers may be more fortunate in discovering the cause of this sudden sinking. While the air on the 24th of August was between 70'7 an(l 760.28 F. from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., I found...
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