Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 2): General hypsometry of India, the Himalaya, and Western Tibet, with sections across the chains of the Karakorúm and Kuenlúen: comprising, in addition to messrs. de Schlagintweit's determinations, the data collected from books, maps, and private communications (Leipzig, 1862)

CONTENTS.

PART I.

METHOD OF OBSERVATION AND CALCULATION.

I. Enumeration of the Materials of Observations. Page.

Comparison and combination of the heights obtained........... 3

Abbreviations used for the observers, books, and maps................... 4

a. India and Himalaya in general......................... 5

6. India..................................... 5

c. Himalaya and Tibet.............................. 8

II. Barometric and Thermo-Barometric Instruments.

i. Barometers...................................... H

a. List of the instruments............................. 11

b. Construction................................. 12

c. Mode of packing............................... 13

d. Determination of the corrections......................... 14

e. General table of the corrections of the barometers................ 21

u. Thermo-barometers, or boiling-point thermometers................... 22

a. Description.................................. 22

b. List of the instruments............................. 24

c. Determination of the corrections by comparison with barometers......... 26

d. Fundamental determination of the corrections.................. 32

in. Aneroids...................................... 35

iv. Thermometers.................................... 37

III. Corresponding Meteorological Stations.

A. Geographical co-ordinates of the corresponding stations................ 40

B. Instruments and hours of observation at the corresponding stations........... 40

C. Secondary corresponding stations........................... 44

D. Selection of the corresponding stations....................• ■ ■ ■ 45

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