Abstract
PROF. HAZEN can alone speak as to what views he intended to advocate; a reviewer can only take count of such as are expressed or implied in the work he reviews, and the present writer is unable to see in the above letter any evidence that the quotations given from Prof. Hazen's work were not fairly representative of his text, or that they fail to justify the comments upon them. That he is not alone in his inference that Prof. Hazen “appears to regard as inapplicable to the movements of the atmosphere, those laws of thermodynamics that are based on the results of Joule's labours,” is shown in the following extract from Prof. J. Hann's paper in the September number of the Meteorologische Zeitschrift:—“Da Herr Hazen so ziemlich alle Grundlagen, auf welchen man die Meteorologie in neuerer Zeit mit Sicherheit weiter ausbauen zu können vermeint, leugnet oder in Zweifel zieht, darunter selbst allgemein anerkannte physikalische Gesetze, wie. z. B. die adiabatische Temperatur-Aenderungen in feuchter Luft, so scheint es zunächst allerdings überflüssig, sich mit ihm in eine Kontroverse einzulassen, da der Boden für eine Verständigung gänzlich fehlt.” The passage referred to in this remark is one of those quoted in the present writer's review.
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