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, BOOKS. 



An Experimental Inquiry concerning the relative Power of, and 

 useful Effect produced by, the Cornish and Boulton and Watt Pump- 

 ing Engines, and Cylindrical and Waggon Head Boilers. By Tho- 

 mas Wicksteed, M.I.C.E. 



The Elements of Mechanics ; designed for the Use of Students in 

 the University. By James Wood, D.D., late Master of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, and Dean of Ely. A new Edition, revised and 

 re-arranged, with considerable alterations and additions, by J. C. 

 Snowball, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Illustrations of Arts and Manufactures ; being a selection from a 

 Series of Papers read before the Society for the Encouragement of 

 Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. By Arthur Aikin, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S..&C. 



The Elements of Descriptive Geometry. By the Rev. Professor 

 Hall, King's College, London. Eighty Illustrations. 



Examples of the Processes of the Differential and Integral Cal- 

 culus. Collected by D. F. Gregory, M.A., Fellow of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge. 



Cruveilhier's Anatomy, Vol. I. translated by Dr. Maddon ; with 

 Notes by Prof. Sharpey, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in 

 University College. 



On the Remote Cause of Epidemic Diseases. By John Parkin. 



Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, vol. i. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR OCT. 1841. 



Chiswick. — October 1. 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. 12. 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. C o dy. 



Apfilegarlh Mnnsc, Dumfriesshire. — Oct. 1. Rain for an hour. 2. 1 r. clear 

 sunshine. 3. Dull, cold and rainy. 4. Fair but dull. 5. Showery ; c? -ioon. 

 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 an .1 clear. 26 

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

 showers p.m. 31. Slight showers. 



