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mark and also in Turkey, wliile tlie veteran Quetelet at Brussels, 

 Agnilar at Madrid, and Capello at Lisbon, continue to publish the 

 results of their respective observations. 



Leaving Europe, we are glad to see that the United States are 

 resuming the work suspended during the war, so that we may hope 

 ere long to receive from the other side of the Atlantic valuable con- 

 tributions in continuation of the work so energetically carried on in 

 former days by Maury. 



In our colonies the subject is generally attracting attention. 

 The Government of Bengal has established a IMeteorological office at 

 Calcutta, of which Mr. H. F. Blanford has undertaken the super- 

 intendence, and has announced his intention of working at the me- 

 teorology of the Bay of Bengal. A system of storm warnings has 

 also been set on foot. 



The palm, however, of all work in those regions belongs to the 

 Meteorological Society of the Mauritius, whose secretary, Mr. 

 Charles Meldrum, is now in England, and engaged in the prepara- 

 tion of synoptic weather-charts for the Indian Ocean. Mr. Meldrum 

 has read several valuable papers before various societies since his 

 arrival in Europe, a notice of which must unavoidably be post- 

 poned. 



We regret also to be unable on the present occasion to refer to 

 the proceedings of the Meteorological Societies both in this country 

 and in France, and can only hope hereafter to revert to the 

 valuable researches contained in their journals. 



9. .MINEEALOGY. 



( With Notices of Becent Mineralogical and Fetrological Worhs.) 



To trace the progress of Mineralogy, quarter by quarter, would in 

 truth be a cheerless task if the chronicler were restricted to the 

 work that is carried forward in our own country. So little energy 

 is brought to bear upon the study of British mineralogy, that many 

 a month may pass without the puljlication of a single memoir 

 worthy of being placed on record. Happily this state of lethargy 

 has not extended to the Continent. There indeed scientilic actiAity, 

 not less in this department than in others, remains as rife as ever. 

 In the periodical literature of contmental science, ]\lineralogy occu- 

 pies a position to which it is fairly entitled by its importance, but 

 from which it is sadly degraded in this country. Hence it is, that 

 the records regularly publislied in this Journal often contain so 

 much about mineralogy abroad, but so little about mineralogy at 

 home. As an mtroduction to the notes which we are about to ofter 

 m the present number, such an apology seems especially needful. 



