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Mr. Farran exhibited to the Academy a Babylonian brick, 
with cuneiform characters. 
Rev. H. Lloyd, V.P., read the following extract ofa letter 
from the Rev. Thomas Knox, accompanying a tabular view 
of the results of rain-guages observed at Toomavara, County 
of Tipperary, by himself, and at Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, by 
the Rev. Henry B. Knox, during the year 1839; together 
with plates of the rain curves. 
* River Glebe, Nenagh, May 28, 1840. 
“T send the combined results, for the year 1839, ofa rain 
gauge kept by my cousin Henry and of my own; they are 
made on the same principle and construction as that of which 
I sent the previous account. As Toomavara is about forty 
miles from the west coast of Ireland, and Monks Eleigh, in 
Suffolk, (where my cousin Henry resides,) about a similar 
distance from the east coast of England, we think the 
comparative view of the direction and amount of rain may, 
perhaps, prove interesting to the Academy. 
** There are a few points to which we wish to draw more 
particular attention: In the first place, there is a striking re- 
semblance between the mean curve of the twelve months, 
and that from Winter to Summer solstice at each place 
respectively, so that the latter nearly represents the na- 
ture of the yearly rain of the place—I mean with regard to 
the point of the compass from which it comes; this you will 
see by comparing plates thirteen and eighteen. 
* Acain, in the mean for each season, the greatest 
amount of rain, at Toomavara, is invariably from S.W., 
whereas, at Monks Eleigh, in Winter it is from W., in 
Spring from N., in Summer E., and in Autumn S. 
Again, when the year is divided into two periods, from 
Autumnal to Spring, and from Spring to Autumnal Equinox, 
the greatest rain, for each period, is at Toomavara from 
the S. W., and at Monks Eleigh from W. During the 
entire year, the greatest amount at Toomavara is from 
the S. W., but at Monks Eleigh from W.; and, though 
