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creatures ; though naturally shy, they command attention by their 

 works ; their nests, webs and tunnels are not only 



" Curiously made from their curious brains," 

 but are fabricated also from their own resources. Spiders, from the 

 Gossamer and Water-diver to the Tunneling Trapdoor family, have 

 curious histories, and are endowed with instincts, which approach 

 reason more closely than the instincts of perhaps any other class of 

 animals : 



" Weaving spiders, come ye here, 

 Come ye long-leg'd spinners, come," 



is to be one of the mottoes of the book. 



Should a sufficient number of subscribers be found, it is proposed 

 to publish the above work in five or six monthly parts at 2s. 6d. each, 

 illustrated with cuts. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR AUG. 1847. 



Chisivick. — August 1,2. Very fine : sultry. 3. Very fine: clear, 4. Very 

 fine : densely overcast. 5. Rain. 6. Overcast. 7. Very fine. 8. Very fine : 

 cloudy. 9. Cloudy: shower: clear. 10. Rain: showery. 11. Very fine. 

 12. Light clouds, with bright sun at intervals: clear at night. 13. Overcast: 

 very fine. 14. Very fine : cloudy. 15. Cloudy : clear : lightning at night. 16. 

 Rain. 17. Overcast. 18. Heavy rain. 19. Overcast: lightning at night. 

 20. Uniformly overcast : slight fog. 21. Slight fog : fine. 22. Overcast : rain : 

 cloudy. 23. Cloudy : rain. 24. Cloudy : clear at night. 25. Very fine. 26. 

 Overcast : very fine. 27, 28. Very fine. 29. Rain : very fine. 30. Very fine : 

 cloudy. 31. Very fine : clear at night. 



Mean temperature of the month 62°'68 



Mean temperature of Aug. 1846 64 -16 



Mean temperature of Aug. for the last twenty years 62 "32 



Average amount of rain in Aug 2*41 inches. 



Boston. — Aug. 1. Fine: 2 o'clock p.m. thermometer 83°. 2. Fine : rain p.m. 

 3,4. Fine. 5. Cloudy : rain p.m. 6. Fine. 7. Fine: rain p.m. 8. Fine. 

 9,10. Cloudy. 11. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 12. Cloudy. 13, 14. Fine. 15. 

 Cloudy. 16. Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 17. Cloudy: rain p.m. 18, 19. Cloudy. 

 20— 25. Fine. 26. Cloudy. 27. Fine. 28. Rain. 29. Cloudy : rain early a.m. : 

 rain p.m. 30, 31. Cloudy. 



Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — Aug. 1, 2. Bright: clear. 3. Bright: cloudy. 

 4. Cloudy : drops. 5. Bright : cloudy. 6. Cloudy : fine. 7. Rain : fine. 8. 

 Cloudy: rain. 9. Cloudy : fine. 10. Cloudy: rain. 11. Clear : showers. 

 12. Cloudy. 13 Clear : cloudy. 14. Cloudy : fine. 15. Bright : fine. 16, 

 17. Clear: fine. 18. Cloudy: fine. 19, 20. Cloudy. 21. Showers : rain. 22. 

 Cloudy : showers. 23. Clear : showers : cloudy. 24. Cloudy : rain. 25. Cloudy. 

 26. Cloudy : rain. 27. Cloudy : clear. 28. Bright : showers : clear. 29. Showers. 

 30. Rain : showers. 31. Bright : rain. 



Applegarlh Manse, Dumfries-shire. — Aug. 1. Fair, but cloudy. 2. Fair and 

 fine : shower early a.m. 3. One slight shower. 4. Rain early a.m. 5. Rain 

 nearly all day. 6. Frequent showers. 7. Heavy showers and sun. 8. Rain. 

 9. Cloudy : cool : dry. 10. Heavy rain. 11. Fine a.m. : rain p.m. 12. Rain 

 nearly all day. 13. Fair and fine. 14. Very fine. 15, 16. Very fine : heavy dew. 

 17. Fine, though cloudy. 18. Very fine. 19. Still fine, but dull. 20. Heavy 

 showers. 21. Slight showers. 22,23. Fine: clear. 24. Rain p.m. 25, 26. Fine, 

 though cloudy. 27. Fine, though cloudy : a few drops. 28. Fine, though cloudy : 

 one slight shower. 29. Fair and fine. 30. Fine : one slight shower. 31. Fine 

 harve t day. 



Mean temperature of the month 57 0, 15 



Mean temperature of Aug. 1846 ., 61 *2 



Mean temperature of Aug. for twenty-five years 57 *14 



Average rain for twenty years 3'16 inches. 



