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DUROCHER AND BOWMAN ON GLACIAL Oft DILTJVIAN PHENOMENA. 



The remarkable appearances which have been ascribed by Seft- 

 strom (Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, Part IX.) to diluvial and by 

 Agassiz to glacial action, have engaged the attention, among others, 

 of Mr. Bowman and M. Durocher. 



M. Durocher states, as the result of an examination of the great 

 valleys of the Pyrenees, of the Ariege, the Garonne, the Adour, &c, 

 that he has observed in their diluvian phenomena the three kinds of 

 fundamental facts that characterize the diluvium of the North, and 

 that of the Alps ; viz., polish of the rocks, accompanied with streaks 

 and furrows, the transport of erratic blocks, and the deposition of 

 gravel on the sides of the upper parts of the valleys, and in level 

 terraces as they descend to the plain. — Comptes Rendus, Nov. 2. 



Mr. Bowman has also been engaged during the summer in an 

 examination of the valleys of the Dee and the Conway, with a view 

 to the investigation of similar phenomena in Wales, the result of 

 which he has published in the ' Philosophical Magazine.' 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR OCT. 1841. 



Chiswick. — October!. Thick haze : cloudy. 2. Very fine. 3. Cloudy: rain. 

 4. Fine : rain at night. 5. Cloudy : rain. 6. Fine : cloudy : clear at night. 

 7. Fine : rain. 8. Overcast: slight rain. 9. Cloudy: rain. 10. Overcast: 

 rain. 11. Very fine: rain. 12. Heavy showers. 13. Fine: stormy with rain 

 at night. 14. Boisterous. 15. Heavy rain. 16. Rain : densely clouded : rain 

 at night. 17. Overcast: stormy. 18. Clear and windy: rain at night. 19. 

 Cloudy: fine. 21. Clear: frosty at night. 22, 23. Overcast: rain at night. 

 24. Cloudy. 25. Overcast : foggy. 26. Foggy : stormy with rain at night. 27. 

 Boisterous with very heavy rain. 28 — 30. Rain. There were only four days in 

 the month on which rain did not fall, leaving a proportion of wet days perhaps 

 unequalled in the neighbourhood of London. 



Boston, — Oct. 1. Fine : rain yesterday p.m. 2. Fine. 3,4. Fine: rain p.m. 

 5 Rain : rain early a.m. 6. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 7. Fine. 8. Fine : rain 

 p.m. 9. Fine. 10. Cloudy: rain p.m. 11. Fine. 1 2. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 

 13. Fine: rain p.m. 14. Cloudy. 15. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 16. Rain: 

 rain early a.m. 17. Rain : rain early a.m. : stormy night. 18. Stormy. 19. 

 Cloudy: rain early a.m. 20. Stormy: rain at night. 21,22. Fine. 23. Rain. 

 24. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 25, 26. Fine. 27. Cloudy : rain p.m. 28, 29. 

 Stormy: rain early a.m. 30. Stormy : rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 31. Cloudy. 



Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire. — Oct. 1. Rain for an hour. 2. Fine clear 

 sunshine. 3. Dull, cold and rainy. 4. Fair but dull. 5. Showery afternoon. 

 6. Wet nearly all day. 7, 8. Dropping day. 9. Fair but threatening. 10. Wet 

 all day. 11. Wet afternoon. 12. Heavy rain a.m. : cleared up. 13, 14. Heavy 

 rain p.m. 15 — 17. Showers. 18. Fair throughout. 19. Showery afternoon: 

 frost a.m. 20. Very heavy rain. 21. Fair and frosty. 22. Frost a.m. : cloudy 

 and moist p.m. 23. Showers. 24. Fair but cloudy. 25. Fair and clear. 26 

 — 28. Fair and bracing. 29. Fair and bracing : frost. 30. Fair a.m., but 

 showers p.m. 31. Slight showers. 



Sun shone out 26 days. Rain fell 19 days. Frosty mornings 4 days. 



Wind north 2 days. North-north-east 2 days. North-east 6 days. East- 

 north-east 1 day. East \\ day. East- south-east 1 day. South-east 2 days. 

 South-south-east 2 days. South 1 day. South-south-west 2 days. South-west 

 4 \ days. West 2 days. West-north-west 1 day. North-west 1£ day. North 

 north-west 1^ day. 



Calm 3 days. Moderate 9 days. Brisk 10 days. Strong breeze 6 days. 

 Boisterous 2 days. Stormy 1 day. 



