346 Mr. Farey's Queries on ShooU7}g Stars. 



Breadth across the bellv from fin to fin . . 



Distance between the manimje . . , . 



Breadth of tail from tip to tip , , . ♦ 



Circumference of the root of the tail . . . , 



Distance from the anus to the centre of the tail . . 



from the anus to the penis . . . . 



Total length of the intestines . . . . , . 

 - — — do. of small intestines including the caecum . . 

 do. of great intestines . . . , . . 



With this account, Sir T. S. Raffles sent me a copy of some 

 observations in French, by Messrs. Diard and Duvaucel, upon the 

 stomach of the dugong. Sir T. S. Raffles mentioned that these 

 observations formed part of a memoir written by those gentle- 

 men. Under these circumstances, I have not felt myself autho- 

 rized to lav them before the Society, along with those made by 

 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, which I consider of too much im- 

 portance to be delayed. 



EvERARD Home. 



LVII. A Series of Queries addressed to Dr. Burney of Gosport, 

 regarding Shooting Stars and Meteors, with some Siig- 

 (jestions on the same Subject to the Astronomical Society of 

 JL,ondon,fur making these Phcenomena available in settling the 

 Longitudes of Places^ and towards extending our Knowledge 

 of tite very numerous planetary and satellitic Bodies, com- 

 posing the Solar System. By Mr. John Farey Sen. 



To the Editor. 



Sir, — Amongst the many learned and ingenious Individuals 

 in this Country, who periodically record their Meteorological Ob- 

 servations in our Scientific Journals, I have observed none otheis 

 who do so, on a scale so complete and comprehensive, as Dr. 

 JVilliam Burney, Master of the Naval Academy at Gosport*; 

 in the " Anna's of Philosophy." Under the head of " Atmo- 



* Dr. Burney states, that the bason of his Barometer, is fixed about 30 

 feet above high-water mark : he would greatly oblige me and others, if lie 

 would ascertain its exact height above low-water mark, and commuiiicalc 

 the same for insertion in your Magazine, with a series of observations at 8, 

 ;», 10, 1 1, and 12 h. on each second Monday of the Montii, for comparison 

 with the simultaneously recorded observations of others. If any gentlemen 

 resident on the Southern coasts of the Isles of Wight, Purbcck or Portland, 

 rould be prevailed on to make and send corresponding Observations, the 

 value of each one of such observations, and of the many others now making 

 in the interior, would thereby be greatly enhanced. 



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