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VIII.—Temperature Observations in Loch Garry (Inverness-shire). With Notes on Currents and Seiches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

E. M. Wedderburn
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During the first seven months of the year 1908 I had the good fortune to be living at Invergarry in Inverness-shire, with sufficient time at my disposal to make temperature observations in Loch Garry, and, through the generosity of Sir John Murray and Mr Laurence Pullar, the funds of the Lake Survey (Pullar Trust) were put at my disposal to defray the expenses of observation. I was further fortunate in securing the services of Mr Wm. Macdonald, Mount Pleasant, Fort Augustus, who was previously boatman to the Lake Survey on Loch Ness, and who proved himself a most painstaking and eager observer, and by whom by far the greater number of the actual observations were made.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 29 , 1909 , pp. 98 - 135
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1909

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page 99 note * For a description of methods of thermometry, see DrMill, H. R.'s ‘Clyde Sea Area,’ part iii. and plate i., Trans. R.S.E., vol. xxxviii. p 3Google Scholar.

page 100 note * See Lake Survey Report, Geogr. Journal, vol. xv. p. 342, April 1900Google Scholar.

page 100 note † But see Forel's Le Leman, vol. ii. p. 358.

page 104 note * Vol. xiv. p. 219.

page 106 note * Proc. R.S.E., vol. xxviii. p. 7.

page 109 note * The cost of this apparatus and the necessary gear was partially defrayed by a grant from the Moray Bequest of the University of Edinburgh.

page 113 note * Since the above communication was made to the Society, I have received a copy of Dr F. M. Exner's paper, “Über eigentümliche Temperaturschwankungen von eintägiger Periode im Wolfgangsee “(Sitz. Alcad. der Wiss. Wien. math.-nat. Kl., Bd. cxvii., Jan. 1908), in which the author discusses observations made by electrical means in St Wolfgangsee which show a temperature seiche having a period of one day. In the case of this lake there appear to be three fairly distinct layers of water, with the result that the oscillations are rather complicated. There appears to be an oscillation of the uppermost layer of opposite phase to the oscillation in the lowest layer, while the middle layer acts as a sort of buffer between the top and bottom layers.