Of the conclusion arrived at by a committee of the Academy of Sciences of France, agreeably to which, tornados are caused by heat
Subtitle: while, agreeably to Peltier's report to the same body, certain insurers had been obliged to pay for a tornado as an electrical storm, also, abstracts from Peltier's report : moreover, quotations shewing the ignorance which existed in the Academy respecting the nature and causes of the meteor in question, prior to the publication ascribing it to a convective discharge of electricity : with objections to the opinions of Peltier and Espy
By: by Dr. Hare
Contributors: Smithsonian Institution; Royal College of Surgeons of England
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and amended.
Publisher: R.W. Barnard & Sons, printers
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural Disasters; Meteorological Factors
Other titles: Exposure of the errors and inconsistencies of the French Academicians respecting tornados.
Notes: Caption title: Exposure of the errors and inconsistencies of the French Academicians respecting tornados.

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