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with the balks of published data. - Should the Governments a
convert
Hongkong decide to
my tables into C.9.5. units, and re-brint them. I shall make no
objects
-ion, and I shall arrange that the sub- -lishers make no claim for compensation,
on condition that I'déceive
cofies, &
a
dozen
of the converted tables through The Crown Agents for the Calories, and that no individual derive a
1
we
from the sale of the tables, auch pro- -fit (if any) to be paid into the Free
at Hongkong
-sury
3. Takks described in the second,
agraph were
to
.
provisionally used by
we-re
-par-
Fre
examine the concordance of the observ- -ations, while they
being made, be - cause they served to hide the final result from the observer, and therefore did not "bias his judgment. In discussing the observations I proceeded differently I have therefore not got such & takke
final result could not have
and a
Decat
been obtained from a table like that described in the minute.
an
in
4. The third paragraph refers to the possibility
of fresh hygrometer tables being arranged by
outsider on the basis of observations made by my frinate observatory here. But there is no such ingibility. Such obsew= atins are not routine work, and they must be discussed by the man who I made them. No one else could por
sibly
€
-sibly, know enough about them, and his -alt would therefore be worse than use- -less. Suppose through
mis washerstanding to alter the observer's figures
sme one
mere
Ronce
and have the altered figures printed, and that the observer chauld issue &
warm.
-ing that an unauthorised edition of his work had been printed under -vernment auspices! I chauld not
like to be
AL
to
any
such
ar-
some respectfully submit
rangement, and
Government would sanction
کے نے
that
FL
my
would be
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5. In previous correspondome I stated
tables for calculating humidity from readings of notating thermometers
same arder of ey as the tables xexamcame in current. use for calculating humidity from read.
I have -ings of stationary thermometers
since then discussed a later series of ot -servations which pretend to for higher and my result, though novel, accuracy is not quite unexpected, jer it had bean suspected for some
that meteorolog. -ists were
AL
Fears
using. hygrometric Tarmula.
·
constant in the
r. I beg to enclose a
shart refart upon these observations, and give therein a formula and detailed instructions for calculating
A new
dad
ex-
-act hygrometric table. To calculate the table home the farmula requires, however,
bmowledge of logarithons, but Mr. Figg
has told me that Mr Jeffries.
a
his