The Prevalence of West Winds

Abstract

IN NATURE of 29th September, 1870, there is an abstract of a paper read at the British Association by Mr. Laughton, maintaining that the preponderance of west over east winds over the entire globe is such as to point to a cosmical force of some kind, moving the atmosphere round the earth from west to east; and concluding “that the motive force for which we are seeking, is really the disturbing force of the attraction of the heavenly bodies.”