On the Terminology of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity

MR. SUTHERLAND'S letter on terminology (NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 391) leads me to suggest to Mr. Scott the employment of the term low-pression for depression in his weather forecasts sent to the newspapers. It is nearly as easily pronounced and written, and will not have such a tendency to mislead the general public as to there being a depressing of the air where it really ascends.