Unpublished paper, 'Statement of observations on the fall of the mercury between the tropics, prior to, and during storms' by unknown author Paper concerning the testing of meteorologists' claims that the mercury 'is not liable to fall much in the Barometer between the Tropics at any time; and that it is only in high latitudes, where a great fall of the Mercury is experienced during storms'. Data used included: A register of the mercury in a barometer made by Dollond (kept by Captain William Donaldson of the Honourable East India Company's ship, Neptune) prior to and during the progress of a typhoon in September-October 1809, in which the Company's ship, True Briton, foundered near the south coast of China; A register of the mercury in a barometer (kept by Captain Clarke of the Wexford) prior to and during a typhoon in September 1810, in which the Company's ship Elphinstone was dismasted, in the China Sea; A register of the mercury in a barometer (kept by James Horsburgh of the ship Anna) prior to and during a storm near the coast of Cochin-china [modern day Vietnam] in July 1804; A statement of the fall of the mercury prior to a gale of wind experienced in the Anna at the entrance of Bengal River [Hooghly River or Bhāgirathi-Hooghly in West Bengal, India] by James Horsburgh. Subject: Meteorology [1810]