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6. Remarks on the Deep-Water Temperature of Lochs Lomond, Katrine, and Tay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Alexander Buchan
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In the communications made by Sir Robert Christison to the Society in December and April last on the deep-water temperature of Loch Lomond, from observations made by him with a Miller-Casilla thermometer, these important facts were stated:—

(1.) On 12th October 1871, the temperature at the surface was 52·°0, from which it fell, on descending, till at 300 feet below the surface it stood at 42°·0, and this temperature of 42°·0 was uniformly maintained at greater depths or to 518 feet, the depth of the loch at the place of observation.

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Proceedings 1871-72
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 7 , 1872 , pp. 791 - 795
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1872

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page 791 note * Results varied considerably owing to working so near the flame—varying from 104° to 126°

page 792 note * Trans. of the Society, vol. xxii. p. 351.

page 793 note * The general results of these observations were given by Sir John Leslie in his “Treatises on Various Subjects of Natural and Chemical Philosophy,” Edinburgh 1838, p. 281.

page 794 note * In this and following temperatures 0°·2 has heen added, in order to bring them to the level of the loch, which is 72 feet lower than the thermometers at Balloch Castle.