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IN Mr. Balfour Stewart's suggestions (NATURE, p. 192) he refers, as an illustration of his method, to a frequently falling barometer in the centre of a cyclone while air is rushing in from every side, and asks, “What can carry off the air if there be not an ascending current in the very heat of the cyclone?” I would therefore ask his consideration of the grounds on which, as I believe, such an “ascending current” must there take place on the simple principle that great heat has been evolved.
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HUDSON, H. Physical Meteorology. Nature 1, 218–219 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001218c0
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