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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

QcUZA -

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