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Remains unconvinced by RF's ideas on gravitating lunisolar action on the atmosphere.
Tells JH he will search for the requested weather data. Encloses 'Weather Reports in the Newspaper.'
Describes a starfish brought alive to England from Iceland by an amateur naturalist.
Thanks JH for critiques of his paper; discusses Matthew Maury's work Physical Geography of the Sea.
Discusses atmospheric wave theory in reference to an experiment in JH's Meteorology. Describes weather patterns observed on the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.
Discusses James Stark's weather observations.
Discusses data gathering from 'the colonies.' Forwards a Scottish publication on meteorology.
Sends more data and papers on meteorological matters. Discusses weather observations by C. P. Smyth.
Reports that rainfall information is not as complete as should be. Describes available data from Meteorological Department. Thanks JH for comments on his work.
More rainfall data.
Thanks JH for his advice. Comments on various aspects of Iceland and Greenland.
Speculates on gravitational effect of sun and moon on earth's atmosphere.
Thanks for sending his Physical Geography. Wonders whether a rainbow could be reflected to the eye from water. Startled to read J. R. Hind's letter about the comet. Encloses a letter from a railway surveyor about an earthquake in Mendoza. This person has been responsible for the railway between Chile and Peru. Comments on the gradients and working of the line.
Asks for meteorological data that RF may have collected.
Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.
Thanks for a number of RF's writings; asks for more rainfall data to try to establish a relationship between rainfall and the solar cycle.
Thanks for all the material received; comments on some of RF's meteorological ideas.
Comments on RF's writing on drifting ice; comments extensively on RF's ideas about air circulation.
Comments on difficulties JH finds in some of RF's writings.