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months of January, February, March, October, November, 

 and December, 125. The west wind has been this year more 

 prevalent than any other, though in general the wind from 

 the S. W. is decidedly the prevalent wind of Kendal. The 

 wind from the west has prevailed 1 24 days during the course 

 of the year ; from the S. W. 83 days ; from the N. 40 ; N. W. 

 32; S. 30; E. 23; N. E. 22; and from the S. E. 12 days. 



Perhaps it will be thought that these remarks are too mi- 

 nute for the purpose for which they are designed ; but I 

 conceive the imputation will be allowed to be groundless, 

 when it is recollected that they are intended to describe some 

 of the peculiarities for which this district is remarkable. 



Art. VIII. — Account of the great Congress of Philosophers at 

 Berlin 07i the ISth September 1828. Communicated by a 

 Correspondent. 



Ihe existence of a large society of cultivators of the natural 

 sciences meeting annually at some great capital, or some cen- 

 tral town of Europe, is a circumstance almost unknown to us, 

 and deserving of our attention, from the important advantages 

 which may arise from it. 



About eight years ago, Dr Okens of Munich suggested a 

 plan for an annual meeting of all Germans who cultivated the 

 Sciences of medicine and botany. The first meeting, of about 

 forty members, took place at Leipsic in 1822, and it was suc- 

 cessively held at Halle, Wurtzburg, Frankfort on the Maine, 

 Dresden, Munich, and Berlin. All those who had printed a 

 certain number of sheets of their inquiries on these subjects 

 were considered members of this academy. 



The great advantages which resulted to these sciences from 

 the communication of observations from all quarters of Ger- 

 many soon induced an extension of the plan, and other de* 

 partments of natural knowledge were admitted, until, at the 

 last meeting, the cultivators even of pure mathematics were 

 found amongst the ranks of this Academy. 



Several circumstances, independent of the form and consti- 

 tution of the academy, contribute'd to give unwonted splendour 



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