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and future Conflagration, with Additions for a second Edition. If 

 you please to revise and correct it before it be printed, I will order 

 Mr. Smith to deliver the Copy to you for that purpose. 



Mr. Beaumont is a person that hath been very diligent in search- 

 ing out and collecting, and curious in observing of petrified Shells 

 and other bodies, and I suppose well qualified to write concerning 

 them. I heard that he once threatened to write something in con- 

 tradiction to Mr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth ; which piece I 

 could wish to see. 



I am now upon a methodical Synopsis of all British Animals ex- 

 cepting Insects, and it will be a general Synops. of Quadrupeds. 

 It will take me up more time to finish then I thought when I first set 

 upon it ; indeed so much as, if I had foreseen, I should hardly have 

 been induced to undertake it. But now I must goe on. 



The Remainder is, great thanks for your extraordinary kindnesse, 

 attested by reall effects ; and profession of readinesse to shew my- 

 self gratefull if any occasion of serving you offers to, 

 Black Notley, Sir, your affectionate friend and servant, 



May 25, —92. John Ray. 



For Dr. Hans Sloane, at the Dutchesse of Albemarles 

 in Clerkenwell, London. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1843. 



Chiswick. — April 1. Rain. 2. Cloudy : clear and fine. 3. Slight rain : clear. 

 4. Rain : cloudy and windy. 5. Fine. 6. Overcast : slight rain. 7. Rain : 

 clear and fine. 8. Clear and fine. 9. Easterly haze. 10. Clear and fine. 

 11. Frosty: clear and dry : frosty at night. 12. Sharp frost : clear: cloudy: 

 clear and frosty at night. 1 3. Cloudy : frosty at night. 14. Uniformly overcast. 

 15. Hazy. 16. Hazy: fine. 17, 18. Light haze: dry air: clear and fine. 



19. Dry easterly haze. 20,21. Very fine. 22. Showery. 23,24. Cloudy and 

 fine. 25. Rain : clear. 26. Cold rain : very fine : rain at night. 27. Cloudy 

 and fine. 28. Slight rain. 29, 30. Cloudy and fine. — Mean temperature of the 

 month O 0, 36 above the average. 



Boston. — April 1. Rain : rain early a.m. 2. Rain : rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 



3. Cloudy. 4. Cloudy : rain early a.m. : stormy with rain p.m. 5. Windy. 

 6. Cloudy : rain a.m. 7. Cloudy. 8. Fine : rain p.m. 9. Cloudy. 10. Fine : 

 snow a.m. : snow p.m. 11 — 13. Fine. 14. Windy: rain early a.m. 15, 16. 

 Cloudy. 17 — 21. Fine. 22. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 23. Fine: rain early a.m. 

 24. Fine. 25. Cloudy. 26. Fine: rain p.m. 27. Fine : rain a.m. 28. Windy. 

 29. Fine : rain a.m. 30. Cloudy. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkney. — April 1. Damp : fog. 2. Bright : damp. 3. Bright : 

 fog. 4. Cloudy. 5. Damp : drizzle. 6. Rain : clear : aurora. 7. Cloudy : rain. 



8. Cloudy : snow-showers. 9. Snow-showers: hail-showers. 10. Snow-drift: 

 showers. 11. Snow-showers. 12. Snowing : drift. 13. Snow-showers : snow- 

 ing. 14. Bright : cloudy. 15. Cloudy. 16. Clear. 17. Clear: cloudy. 18. 

 Cloudy: damp. 19. Cloudy. 20. Damp: cloudy. 21. Damp: fog. 22. Damp: 

 rain. 23. Damp. 24. Bright : cloudy, 25,26. Bain. 27. Bright: cloudy. 

 28. Rain. 29. Fog: cloudy. 30. Fog : bright : fine. 



Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire. — April 1,2. Heavy rain. 3. Fair and fine. 



4. Rain. 5. Fair and fine : aurora. 6, 7. Rain. 8. Rain : thunder : hail. 



9. Fair: frost. 10,11. Hail : frost. 12. Frost a.m. : snow : rain. 13. Frost. 

 14 — 16. Fair and temperate. 17. Fair and temperate : fine spring day. 18 — 



20. Fair and temperate. 21. Fair and temperate : showers. 22. Rain nearly 

 all day. 23. Bain a.m. 24. Rain early : very fine day. 25. Heavy rain : flood. 

 26. Fair, 27. Fair : hoar-frost. 28. Heavy rain. 29. Fair and fine. 30. Fair, 



