METEOROLOGY,

DAVIDSON, PRINTER, SERLE'S PLACE,

CAREY STREET, LONDON.

CONSIDERED

IN ITS CONNEXION WITH

ASTRONOMY, CLIMATE,

AND THE

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION

ОР

ANIMALS AND PLANTS,

EQUALLY AS WITH

THE SEASONS AND CHANGES OF THE WEATHER

BY

PATRICK MURPHY,

"

AUTHOR OF THE "RUDIMENTS OF THE PRIMARY FORCES OF GRAVITY, MAGNETIS
AND ELECTRICITY IN THEIR AGENCY ON THE HEAVENLY BODIES.'
"THE ANATOMY OF THE SEASONS, &c."

"Il est des vérités à qu'il ne manque, pour être accréditées, que d'être
annoncées par des hommes heureux."-Schulz.

C'est au fond de l'examen que se trouve la science et la vérité, L'or se
ramasse au fond des creusets."-Helvetius.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY J. B. BALLIERE, 219, REGENT STREET.

1836.

PREFACE.

AS FEW who have turned their attention to meteorology are ignorant of its extensive relations with science and the general interests of society, it were superfluous, in this place, to enter into a detail of these relations. And if in addition we take into account that it was only by discoveries in meteorology, the solution of the grand problem of science, viz. that of the true theory of the world, could have been at any time arrived at: instead of detracting from the importance of this science in other respects, it thus comes forward invested with additional claims, and a higher title to our consideration, than all the others.

And having in the following pages, as I trust, sufficiently shown the truth of these assumptions,