396 Ititelli^ence and Miscellcmeous Articles, 



"b 



ings, and this subordination is clearly exhibited to the very latest 

 period of good Gothic architecture. 



March 30. — The President (the President of Queen's) in the Chair. 

 A paper by Augustus de Morgan, Esq. of Trinity College, was read, 

 containing remarks on the memoir of M. Abel rehitive to the alge- 

 braical expression of the roots of equations which are connected by 

 the law of periodic functions. — Afterwards Mr. Whewell exhibited 

 and explained a new Anemometer, the object of which is to measure 

 the whole amount of the wind which blows in each direction in a given 

 time; and thus to make measures of the wind in different times and 

 places comparable with each other. He pointed out also how such 

 measures might be employed so as to compose a type of the annual 

 course of the winds at each place, and thus to solve several important 

 problems in meteorology. 



LXI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



INgUIKY RESPECTING THE EXISTENCE OF PROVINCIAL LITE- 

 RARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 

 Gentlemen, ' 



I FEEL confident that the cause of Science might be promoted if 

 those who are interested in the various departments of Geology, 

 Natural History, &c , were acquainted with the different local Socie- 

 ties in the different counties of England. Should this, therefore, 

 meet the eye of any of the secretaries or others superintending esta- 

 blishments'of this description, they would perhaps have the goodness 

 to send to you, free of postage or other expense, a brief outline of 

 the objects pursued, notices of their museums, or any other details 

 they may think requisite, with an address by which a correspondence 

 could be carried on, on points equally interesting, and in many cases, 

 1 should anticipate, equally beneficial to all parties. 



Twenty-five counties in England have Literary or Scientific Socie- 

 ties, and in some of them are several of a highly respectable character j 

 but with regard to the following counties I am in ignorance : 



Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cumberland*, Here- 

 fordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Lincoln- 

 shire, Monmouthshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Shropshire. 

 A Friend to the Diffusiox of Knowledge 

 BY Mutual Communication. 



ON THE QUANTITY OF SOLID MATTER SUSPENDED IN THE 

 WATER OF THE RHINE. BY LEONARD HORNER, ESQ., F.R.S. 



Mr. Horner's " experiments show, that the quantity of solid matter 

 suspended in water, which, in the mass, has a turbid appearance, may 

 be very trifling. But the extent of waste of the land, and of the solid 



* We believe that there is a Literary and Philosophical Institution at 

 Carlisle. — Edit. 



