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PANOPTICON OP SCIENCE AND ART. 



An advertisement on the Cover of our present Number announces 

 the establishment of a new Chartered Institution on an extensive 

 scale, and recommended by powerful patronage, the object of which 

 will be the permanent exhibition of working models of machinery, 

 and specimens of manufactures and fine arts, together with lectures 

 on the several branches of natural philosophy and the arts ; thus 

 blending recreation with practical instruction. It is proposed that 

 the institution, which is styled the Royal Panopticon of Science and 

 Art, should be established by an association of chartered shareholders, 

 and in a building to be erected for the purpose in a central situation 

 near the Strand. 



METEOROLOaiCAL OBSERVATIONS FOR FEB. 1850. 



Chiswick. — February 1. Densely clouded : showery. 2. Slight rain. S. Cloudy: 

 clear. 4. Very fine. 5. Slight rain : very fine : showery. 6. Boisterous. 7. Fine. 

 8. Hazy. 9. Very boisterous. 10. Clear: very fine. II. Rain: boisterous. 



12. Overcast: boisterous. 13. Clear and dry: frosty at night. 14. Rain: 

 drizzly. 15. Cloudy : rain. 16. Clear. 17. Overcast. 18. Cloudy: very fine. 

 19. Overcast. 20. Densely overcast : rain. 2i. Overcast: clear at night. 

 22. Cloudy : very fine. 23. Overcast and fine. 24. Overcast. 25. Foggy. 

 26. Foggy : overcast : clear. 27. Foggy : very fine : clear. 28. Foggy. 



Mean temperature of the month 42°*80 



Mean temperature of Feb. 1849 41 '35 



Mean temperature of Feb. for the last twenty-three years. 39 '56 



Average amount of rain in Feb 1'61 inch. 



Boston, — Feb. 1. Cloudy. 2 — 4. Fine. 5. Cloudy: stormy p.m. : distant 



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



10. Fine. 11. Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 12. Cloudy: rain and snow p.m. 



13. Fine : rain P.M. 14. Cloudy: rain a.m. 15. Fine. 16, Fine: rain a.m. 

 17. Fine. 18. Cloudy. 19. Fine. 20, 21. Cloudy. 22. Fine. 23—28. Cloudy. 



Applegarlh Manse, Dumfries-shire. — Feb. 1. Heavy rain nearly all day. 2. Rain 

 allday: storm P.M. 3. Rain, with high wind. 4. Dull and cloudy. 5. Dull a.m. : 

 severe storm of wind and rain. 6. Hurricane, with heavy rain. 7. Snow ^ths 

 of an inch deep: rain p.m. 8. Frost early : rain and wind p.m. 9. Rain and 

 high wind all day. 10. Fine : frost a.m. ; showery p.m. 1 1 . Snow : rain : wind. 

 12. Rather fine : slight shower. 13. Hard frost : clear and fine. 14. Rain thick 

 and close. 15. Rain : stormy p.m. : very wet. 16. Showers: very changeable. 

 17, 18. "Wet a.m.: dull and moist all day. 19. Rain, and fog and wind. 20. 

 Showers, short but severe. 21. Rain: storm of wind. 22. Fair, but unsettled- 

 looking. 23. Fair : cloudy. 24. Fair and fine. 25. Rain during the night : 

 moist. 26. Fine a.m. : showery p.m. 27, 28. Dull, but fair and mild. 



Mean temperature of the month 41°'7 



Mean temperature of Feb. 1849 41 "2 



Mean temperature of Feb. for the last twenty-eight years. 37 '6 

 Average amount of rain in Feb. for the last twenty years. 2*04 inches. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkney. — Feb. 1. Cloudy: rain: cloudy. 2. Showers: 

 thunder : cloudy. 3. Showers. 4. Sleet : cloudy. 5. Cloudy : sleet-showers. 

 6. Showers : clear : aurora. 7. Showers: clear. 8. Cloudy : frost: sleet-showers. 

 9. Snow-showers. ] 0. Bright : snow-showers. 1 1. Cloudy : clear. 12. Bright: 

 snow-showers : aurora. 13. Snow-showers : cloudy : aurora, 14. Rain : drizzle. 

 15. Cloudy : hazy : aurora. 16. Sleet-showers: hazy. 17. Rain : drizzle. 18. 

 Hazy: drizzle. 19. Rain: hazy: cloudy. 20,21. Sleet-showers: showers. 

 22. Cloudy : showers, 23. Cloudy : hazy, 24, Drizzle : fine. 25. Cloudy : 

 fine. 26. Clear : fine. 27. Drizzle : cloudy. 28. Cloudy : fine. 



