Note 500 — Chapter XVII · THE CLIMATE OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.
Reading edition
Vide Quart. Journ. Roy. Met. Soc. vol. XI., p. 309. The instruments used on board were previously verified at Kew. From want of leisure, Lieut. Leeper was unable to do much more than tabulate his observations. I have therefore extracted from them such general facts and inferences as they sustain.