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The analyses of the oil extracted from olives which had served for 

 experiment gave the following results : — 



Oil 0-361. Carbonic acid 1043. Water 0*377. 



Carbon .... 78-661 According to the formula fC 76-05 



Hydrogen.. 11-39 > C^e H^e O^ <j H 12-95 



Oxygen .... 9-95 J there should be obtained |_0 11 00 



100-00 10000 



These numbers approach each other sufficiently near to admit the 

 formula as expressing one of the most curious transformations pre- 

 sented by organic chemistry. — L'Instiut, Juin 20, 1849. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JUNE 1849. 



Chiswick. — June 1,2. Fine. 3. Fine: hazy : clear. 4. Very fine. 5. Sultry : 

 showery at night. 6. Uniformly overcast. 7. Fine. 8. Fine : overcast 9. Fine: 

 rather cold: overcast: clear. 10 — 12. Overcast. 13. Fine: cloudy: clear. 

 14. Fine : slightly clouded. 15. Dusky haze. 16. Overcast : fine. 17. Fine: 

 dusky haze. 18. Fine. 19. Slight rain. 20. Very fine. 21. Fine. 22,23. 

 Very fine. 24. Cloudless and very fine. 25. Overcast: very fine. 26 — 28. 

 Very fine. 29. Cloudy : rain. 30. Cloudy : clear and cold at night. 



Mean temperature of the month 59°*SO 



Mean temperature of June 1848 59 "58 



Mean temperature of June for the last twenty-three years ... 60 '85 

 Average amount of rain in June 1*88 inch. 



Bnstnn. — June 1. Cloudy. 2 — 4, Fine, 5. Cloudy: rain, with thunder and 

 lightning A.M. : rain P.M. 6 — 9, Fine. 10. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 11. Cloudy. 



12. Cloudy: rain p.m. 13,14. Fine. 15. Fine: rain p.m. 16. Cloudy. 17, 

 18. Fine. 19. Fine : rain a.m. and p.m. 20. Fine. 21. Cloudy. 22. Fine. 

 23. Cloudy. 24. Fine. 25. Rain. 26. Fine. 27. Cloudy. 28, Fine. 29. 

 Fine : rain p.m, SO. Cloudy. 



Apptegarlh Manse Dumfrien -shire. — June 1. Clear and bracing weather: 

 shower A.M. 2. Fine and growing : one shower p.m. 3,4. Fair and fine. 5. 

 Fair A.M. : one shower p.m. : electr. 6,7. Fair and fine. 8. P'air, but chilly 

 from N.E. 9. Fair : air highly electric : thunder. 10. Fair and very droughty. 

 11. Fair and droughty : getting cloudy. 12. Fair and droughty : cleared away. 



13. Fair and droughty. 14. Fair and droughty, but getting cloudy. 15. Fair 

 and droughty : cloudy : thunder. 16. Slight shower : much thunder. 17. Again 

 droughty. 18, Cloudy : a few drops of rain. 19. Heavy rain, night : shower, 

 day. 20. Frosty during night : shower p.m. 21. A few drops : very high wind. 

 22. Rain at intervals. 23. Fair and dear. 24. Light rain : very mild. 25. 

 Cloudy A.M. : slightly showery. 26. Slight shower p.m. 27. Fine : warm : fair 

 all day. 28. Fair. 29. Rain p.m. , not heavy but soft. 30. Fair all day and 

 warm. 



Mean temperature of the month 53°*3 



Mean temperature of June 1848 55*7 



Mean temperature of June for twenty-five years 56 'I 



Rain in June for twenty years 3*16 inches. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkney. — June 1 , 2. Bright : clear. 3. Bright : cloudy. 4. 

 Showers : cloudy. 5, 6. Bright : clear. 7. Hazy : clear. 8. Bright : clear. 

 9. Bright: snow-showers. 10. Cloudy. 11. Bright: clear. 12. Bright: 

 cloudy. 13,14. Bright: clear. 15. Cloudy. 16. Drizzle: rain. 17. Clear: 

 rain. 18. Rain. 19. Cloudy : damp. 2o! Cloudy : rain. 21. Rain : clear. 

 22. Cloudy. 23. Rain : cloudy. 24. Bright : clear. 25. Bright : rain. 26. 

 Fog: drizzle. 27. Showers : hazy. 28, 29. Bright : clear. 30. Bright : rain. 



