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 4): Meteorology of India: an analysis of the physical conditions of India, the Himálaya, western Tibet, and Turkistan (Leipzig, 1866)

INDEX TO VOLUME IV.

579

Salt-lakes, views of, 528.

Sanitary condition of the European troops in India, 189;
378.

- of the Himalayan stations, 471.

- of Indian stations, 162.

- of savage tribes, 164.

-■ in Tibet, 523.

- Eeports, 377.

Scalenradehen, 41.
Seasons in High Asia, 468.

- in the Tropics, 113.

-, Hindu division of, 114.

-, Tibetan division of, 116.

Sea-water, temperature of, 143.
Sikkim, climate of, 473.
Simla, climate of, 489.
Snow-falls in Kashmir, 508.

- in Kulu, 508.

- in Ladak, 519.

- in the Panjab, 269.

Snow-line, Alps, Andes, and Norway, compared with High

Asia, 569.
--■ coldest in the Kuenluen, 571.

---, greatest absolute height of, in the Karakoriim, 570.

— , on the Himalayan south side not exceptional, 567.

-, thermal limit of, 566.

- variation of with the seasons, 570.

Snowy regions, extent of, 503.

Solid mass, rate of decrease of, with height, 546.

Southern India, coasts, climate of, 374.

- India, hilly districts, climate of, 335.

Subterraneous isothermal lines, 137.
Suicides, mode of, in India, 192.

Tarais, 474; 476; 489.

Tea, cultivation of in Assam, 167.

Telegraph, use of for meteorology, 153.

Temperature, alteration of, with longitude, in India, 445.

-, daily and yearly period of, 44; 113; 467.

Temperature, decrease of with height, in the Alps, 548.

- in the free air from barometric observations, 140.

-- from balloon ascents, 144.

--in High Asia, 547.

--in India, 146.

--next to surface, 142.

Terrestrial heat, sources of, 45.
Thermal anomaly in High Asia, 558.

- in India, 450.

- equator 446.

--tables, statistical, 452.

Thermantidotes, use of, in the Panjab, 271.
Thermometers, black bulb, 47.

-, corrections of, 10, 28.

-, English and German forms of, 27.

- made slow for deep water, 34.

--registering temperature, 33.

- scales of, compared, 36.

--sun's rays, 47.

Thermometric tubes, influence of, eliminated, 31.
Tibet, Eastern, climate of, 517. <
Trees, thermal limit of, 565.
True means, reduction to, 121.
Turkistan, comparatively too warm, 563.

Variability, definition of, absolute and mean, 124.

- tables of, for High Asia, 522.

- for India, 126.

Variation of temperature non periodical, 121.
- periodical, 50; 55; 500.

Waterfalls, reduced to rapids in High Asia, 135.
Weather, mode of description of, 10.

-, possibility of prediction of, 153.

-, prediction of, interpretation by priests, 154.

Western India, climate of, 298.

Zones, isolated, of heat, 449.

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