238 Annual Meteorological Results at Kendal. 



alcohol ; that is to say, in one case there is no action, and in the other 

 it is strong. 



Chloride of strontium, chloride of copper, and nitrate of copper 

 when dissolved in alcohol, were not decomposed by exposure to a 

 long-continued current of carbonic acid gas. 



The presence of water does not appear to be always necessary to 

 chemical action j in many cases it may occur with other solvents. 

 Oxalic acid dried under the receiver of the air-pump and dissolved in 

 absolute alcohol, precipitates a similar solution of nitrate flame. 

 Sulphocyanate of potash gives as deep a colour to permuriate of iron 

 dissolved in alcohol as in water. — Ann. de Chim. torn. 1. p. 434. 



There have been very few meteorological peculiarities observed 

 during the year 1832. The annual mean of the barometer exceeds 

 in a trifling degree that of several years past. The annual average 

 of the thermometer is less than that of 1831, but greater than the 

 mean of several preceding years. The cholera made its appearance 

 in Kendal about the beginning of July, or the latter part of June. 

 From that time to its disappearance in August, the weather was 

 not distinguished by any peculiarity, by any sudden changes, or 

 any excess or diminution of temperature, beyond what is common 

 in this place at the same season of the year. The average tempera- 

 ture of July, August, September, and October, in this year is 55 0, 99; 

 and taking the average temperature of the same months in the pre- 

 ceding seven years, we find it to be 55°*23, showing that the dif- 

 ference in temperature is very trifling. We had no frost from the 

 5th of May till the 7th of November. The aurora borealis has not 

 been seen this year so frequently as last, and was very rarely noticed 

 till the last three months, when there were several splendid appear- 

 ances of it. The most extraordinary was seen on the evening of 

 the 1st of November, when several bows of light, accompanied with 



