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baSle agent ; though other fluids may also act with sufficient 

 energy. Whether there has been any connexion between the 

 uncommon badness of the weather, and the subterraneous pha^ 

 nonienon which has caused so much speculation, the imperfect 

 state of the science of meteorology prevents us from determining. 

 We aheady know that there is a connexion between the electri- 

 cal state of the earth and that of the atmosphere ; but philoso- 

 phers have not as vet thought the investigation of this subject 

 v.orth their pains. The present theory of the atmospheric phae- 

 nomena does not appear to me satisfactory; and I doubt not 

 we shall have new theories very soon. The field is open and 

 ^•. ide, and wonderfiil discoveries may yet be expected. 



A hard body, supposed to be of the nature of a meteoric stone, 

 fell, during a hard thunder- storm, into a window at Glastonbury 

 about a month ago. 



LECTURES. 



The following arrangements have been made for Lectures at 

 the Surrey Institution during the ensuing season : 



1. On Chemistry, by John Murray, Esq. to commence on 

 Tuesday, November r2th, at Seven o'clock in the Evening pre- 

 cisely, and to be continued on each succeeding Tuesday. 



2. On Aerostation, by John Sadler, Esq. to be delivered on 

 Friday Evenings, November 15th and 22d, at the same hour, 



3. On the Principles and Practical Application of Perspective, 

 by John George Wood, Esq. to commence on Friday the 29th 

 of November, and to be continued on each succeeding Friday 

 at the same hour. 



4. On Astronomy, by John Millington, Esq. Civil Engineer, 

 to commence in January 1817. 



5. On Music, by W. Crotch, Mus. D. Professor of Music in 

 the University of Oxford, to commence in February 18i7. 



Mr. Cooper will commence his Lectures on Chemistry in his 

 Laboratory, 76, Drury-Lane, on Tuesday the 22d of October, 

 at Eiglit o'clock in tlie Evening precisely. 



Further Particulars may be had on application as above. 

 Those gentlemen who wish to attend the Course are requested to 

 make known their intentions previous to the loth of October. 



Dr. Spurzheitn continues to give lectures at Edinburgh to a 

 very large medical class of prof(.■^,^-ors a))d others, on the aiw- 

 toniy of the brain. 



Mr. 



