Lamarck (J. B.), first to classify cloud forms, 41 Lamson (C. H.), aero-curve kite, 134 Langley (S. P.), 28, 174 Laplace (P. S. de), 17, 23, 101 Lavoisier (A. L.), 19, 68 Ley (W. C.), classification of clouds, 42 Lunardi (V.), balloon ascent, 69 M M'Adie (A.), 53, 123 Magnetism, variation with height, 73, 77 Mallet (M.), balloon ascent, 84 Manila, Philippine Islands, cloud measurements at, 65-6 Mariotte (E.), law of gases, 16 Melvill (T.), aided in first scientific use of kites, 120 Merle (W.), oldest weather chronicles, 12 Meteorograph for kites, 128, 136 Meteorological conferences, international, 42, 44, 108 Meteorology, first treated by Aristotle, 10 ---- origin of, 10 Misti, El, highest station, 35 Montgolfier brothers, invented hot-air balloon, 19 M¸ntz (A.), analysis of air, 112-13 N Nares (Sir G.), storm-kite, 122 Nebular hypothesis of Laplace, 23 Neumayer (G.), cloud-atlas, 42 Newton (I.), improved kites, 118 O Olympus, mountain ascended by ancients, 11 Oxford, oldest weather chronicles, 12 P Parseval (A. von), kite-balloon, 94 Pascal (B.), experiment with barometer, 15, 16 Perier (F.), _idem_, 15 Photography from balloons, 81, 113 ---- from kites, 123, 126, 173 Pickering (E. C.), pole-star recorder, 48 Pike's Peak, meteorological station, 35 Pil‚tre de Rozier (J. F.), first to ascend in balloon, 19 Pliny, the atmosphere, 9 Pocock (G.), great kite, 122 PoÎy (A.), classification of clouds, 42 Priestley (J.), oxygen in the air, 18 R Rain-gauge, invention of, 13 RÈaumur (R. A. F. de), thermometer, 14 Rey (J.), first thermometer filled with liquid, 14 Riccioli (G. B.), first to measure clouds trigonometrically, 52 Richard (AbbÈ), clouds, 38 ---- (J.), self-recording instruments, 101, 125, 128, 136 Robertson (E. G.), 72, 73 ---- balloon ascent, 72 Rotch (A. L.), balloon ascents, 85, 86 S Sacharoff, balloon ascent, 72 Siegsfeld (H. B. von), kite-balloon, 94 Sigsbee (C. D.), 44, 131 Sivel (T.), ascent in _Zenith_, 82 Spelterini (E.), balloon voyage with Heim, 92 Spencer (S.), aeronaut for Berson, 89 Sweetland (A. E.), prognostics from clouds, 63 Symons (G. J.), meteorologist and bibliophile, 12 T Teisserenc de Bort (L.), 51, 116, 144 Temperature, change with height, 18, 29, 71, 73, 75, 77, 89, 90, 104, 107, 120, 121, 126, 141, 151, 167 ---- diurnal changes at different altitudes, 152, 161-2 ---- types of change with altitude, 154 _et seq._ Theodolite, registering, 106 Theophrastus, weather prognostics, 11 Thermometer, aspiration, 74, 86 ---- metallic, 116 ---- sling, 85 Thermometers, early, 14 Tissandier (A.), sketches of optical phenomena, 81 ---- (G.), ascent in _Zenith_, 81, 82 Toronto, Canada, international cloud measurements, 65 Torricelli (E.), invented barometer, 15 Tycho Brahe, height of atmosphere, 12 U United States hydrographic office, 44 ---- weather bureau, 44, 65, 143 Upsala, Sweden, clouds measured at, 53, 58, 66 V