LAWS OF TEMPERATURE.

This treatise is a summary of the temperature aspect of climate only. Concise statements of the ways in which certain aspects of climate differ from place to place are given in some texts and treatises dealing with meteorology and climatology. The aim of this paper is to point out and explain those relations which correspond, in so far as the nature of the subject permits, to the laws of other sciences. Some of the "laws" that have been included are, laws concerning the heating and cooling of the earth, distribution of heat in point of time, distribution of heat over the earth, delay of heating and cooling, diurnal range and seasonal range.