1. See On the convective equilibrium of temperature in the atmosphere Manchester Phil. Soc. 1862 ii 3rd seriesand vol. iii. of Collected Papers.
2. These curves were recently published in the Proc. Roy. Instit. 1886 Lecture of Jan. 29and ‘Nature,’ July 22 and 29, and Aug. 19, 1886; also to appear in a volume of Lectures now in the press, to be published in the ‘Nature’ series.