3&2 Mi'teorologkal Report. fMay I, 



roiitiniied, proved prpservaliveas^fiinst the violent maids will have recouiso to with 



iiijiiiious etj'ects of falls aiid blows; and, your children, hy way of expending their 



in this way, prevented hydrocepliahis : own accnninlatcd excitability. Lctlhne 



btit, in the major number of instances, the be life in a nurse, (the writer would say,) 



minutest observer is not able to trace the but not vehemence, and the more infants 



origin of the mischief to exterior cause ; have their own actions enconiaged, the 



and the Reporter is disposed to the infer- better. There arc no children more 



• nee, that, provided the charge be well liealthy, or better formed, or less ob- 



founded against modern hiibits, in causing noxious to disease, than those of some 



an increase of brain affections, that these savajjc nations, who, from birth, are 



habits have more reference to internal and thrown upon the floor, and permitted to 



gradual, than exterior and immediate ex- obey the ^rowins; demands of instinct in 



citations. There is one part of nursing', tlie un.issistpd employment of their gradih- 



liowevcr, from which the writer, feels ally developing energies, 

 droidedly averse, viz. the violent tossinij D. UwiNS, M.i)., 



in the anus that some of your volatile and Bedford-row ; April L'3, 1824. 



METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



Journal of the IVeulher ami Natural ULilori/, kept at Harlfeld, East Grinsicad, 

 by Du. T. FoRSTKH, for March 1824. 



AnOITIONAT, NOTES. 



March 1. — Abundance of Croci and 

 Snowdrops in flower. The former flowered, 

 as usual, about the 2d of February, and 

 the latter on the 14tli. 



4. — Long-tailed titmouse Mccislura va- 

 gans seen. 



6. — The blue crocus came into blow. 



9.— The .4.)iimone hortoisis floviereil. 



1 1). — Niirdssus pseudonarcissus flowered, 



11. — Cirrus or Curlcloud prevails. 



12. — Yellow sunset Narcissus laclus in 

 blow. 



13, — Rough March weather. Electri- 

 city of the atmosphcie very strongly indi- 

 cated. 



14. — Pilewort Ticariu vertia in flower. 



15. — A remarkable roaring of the wind, 

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