| Description Of Item | The second volume of lectures by John Walker is on meteorology, or the history of the atmosphere and includes: the cause of the rise and fall of the barometer; the range of the barometer; the heights of hills in the Highlands; consideration of climates with respect to heat and cold. It has annotations both to the text and on the page facing the text and inserted loose notes on mammalia and zoology. Lectures 6-10. |