Note 54 — APPENDIX A. ON THE FALL OF TEMPERATURE IN ASCENDING TO HEIGHTS ABOVE THE SEA-LEVEL.
Reading edition
On this subject see Handbuch der Klimatologie, by Julius Hann, pp. 141, et seq. See also Tables I. and II. in a report on thermometric observations in the Alps, by J. Ball, in Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1862, pp. 366–368.