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THE observations made at the College of the Society of Jesus, Havana, are peculiarly valuable for the fulness and care with which they are made, and for the completeness with which the observations themselves and the monthly means and extremes are given in each monthly table and its accompanying diagram. The diagrams, which have been published in their present improved form since June 1873, and which exhibit on one sheet the two-hourly observations as made daily from 4 A.M. to 10 P.M. of all the meteorological and magnetical elements, will very much facilitate the study of those inquiries which deal with the inter-relations of these elements. To these observations are add ed the daily amounts of the rainfall and evaporation—the latter being of great interest as contributing to our knowledge of the evaporation in intertropical regions, of which so little is known. Whilst only the daily amounts of the rainfall is given, each hour during which rain falls is noted, together with the hour of occurrence of thunder and other irregularly recurring phenomena. As regards the diurnal variations of the wind it changes from about S.E. in the early morning, through E. and N.E. to N.N.E. its most northerly point, which is usually reached about 2 P.M., and thence in the reverse direction through N.E. and E. to E.S.E., which is reached about 10 P.M. The diurnal velocity is at the minimum at 4 A.M., rises to the maximum at 2 P.M., and thence falls steadily to the minimum. The N. and N.E. winds are decidedly the strongest, and the S.E. the weakest, the ratio being as two to one; in other words, the sea-breeze blows with double the velocity of the landbreeze at this station.
Observaciones Magneticas y Meteorologicas del Colegio de Belen de la Compañia de Jesus en la Habana, 1873 y 1874.
(Habana, 1874 and 1875.)
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Observaciones Magneticas y Meteorologicas del Colegio de Belen de la Compañia de Jesus en la Habana, 1873 y 1874. Nature 13, 224 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013224a0
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