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change does he mention in what he calls digested parsley, ex- 

 cept change of colour? and does he not talk of the chyme of 

 the rabbit resembling mucus, and being often found in greatest 

 quantity in the cardiac portion of the stomach ? 



I am sorry that the discussion of this question, which 

 it has been my wish to divest of all personality, should 

 have produced any angry feelings in Mr. Broughton's mind ; 

 and remain, 



Sivi, Your obedient Servant, 



Charles Hastings. 



Worcester, July \8th, 1821. 



Art. XI. Meteorological Observations. By J. F. 

 Daniell, Esq., F.R.S., and M.R.I. 



I HAVE now completed the second year's observations with 

 my hygrometer and the instruments connected with it, and 

 propose, in this paper, to give a condensed abstract of their 

 results. I have ceased to publish, quarterly, the Meteorological 

 Journal at length, from a conviction that its utility, in such a 

 state, is very doubtful, and that it would unprofitably occupy 

 the room of more important or entertaining matter. Mr. 

 Howard, in his late laborious work upon the climate of London, 

 has shewn the proper use to be made of such accumulations of 

 facts ; it is only by collecting the means of different seasons, 

 thereby neutralizing errors of observation and accidental irre- 

 gularities, by arranging them in periods chosen according to the 

 influence of particular circumstances, and by carefully collating 

 and comparing them, however tedious the operation, that we 

 can hope to arrive at certain consequences and useful results 

 from the preliminary labour. Many, indeed, appear, at present, 

 to be the observers of meteorological phenomena, to judge by 

 the registers which regularly contribute their expletive powers 

 to every magazine and journal which issue from the press ; but, 

 for want of proper direction and concert, their perseverance, it 

 is to be feared, is wholly fruitless. The observers themselves 



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