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over with little notice, copiously illustrated. To this work 
(which is to such a degree original, that I may be allowed to 
recommend it,) I shall frequently be indebted in the course of 
these pages. 
7. The useful Repertorium (or Analytical Index to Scientific 
Literature) of Fechner, has been succeeded by the ably-conducted 
work of Dove and Moser, under the same title, in which it is 
proposed, somewhat after the manner of the British Association 
Reports, to analyse the various publications connected with 
physical science, so as to present, in a cycle of five or six 
years, a digest of all that has appeared on each subject in the 
preceding period. The third volume of Dove’s Repertorium*, 
which has lately appeared, contains a valuable analysis of works 
on one portion of meteorology. 
8. To Professor Kamtz of Halle, beyond all comparison the 
most devoted meteorologist of the present day, we are indebted 
for the most laborious systematic compilation which has yet ap- 
peared upon the subject; ; a compilation, however, which in- 
cludes many important contributions and generalizations of his 
own, and which is as much distinguished by copious references 
to the works of all who have preceded him, as many works of 
the English and French schools are by the total omission of 
such literary justice. In the first volume we have the subject 
of Temperature generally discussed, and that of Wind and of 
Rain. In the second, is the most complete collection of facts 
anywhere to be found, on the laws of diurnal and annual 
changes of temperature, on isothermal lines, and the proper 
temperature of the globe, followed by a chapter on barometric 
oscillations, and another on atmospheric electricity. The third 
volume is chiefly devoted to optical meteorology and terrestrial 
magnetism. This is the only work we have which can pro- 
perly be considered as a system of meteorology (with the ex- 
ception, perhaps, of the article Meteorology in the Encyclopedia 
Metropolitana, mentioned in the former report). 
9. The attempt to systematize and direct meteorological ob- 
servations within the last eight years, is in nothing better shown 
than in the various “ Instructions for Observers,’’ which have 
appeared during that time from various and very influential 
sources. Some of the special contents of these instruments we 
shall have occasion to notice, as well as the spirit which they 
are likely to impress upon future systems of observation, and 
* Berlin, Veit & Co., 1839, 8vo. 
+ Lehrbuch der Meteorologie, 8vo. 3 Bande, 1831—1836. The saine au- 
thor has more lately published Experimental Physics, and Lectures on Meteor- 
ology. 
