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Tredgold also proposes that the strength of the rafter shall 

 be obtained by making it flat rather than deep, as he con- 

 ceives that tlie great depth of the rafter produces a shade in 

 the house at the period when the sun is low in the horizon ; 

 and at tlie time when he is at his greatest altitude the obstruc- 

 tion of his beams by the flat rafter will rather be advantageous 

 than otherwise. 



Description of a Vinery constructed upon a new Plan, by 

 William Atkinson, Esq., and an Account of the Mode of 

 Training practised in it. By Mr. William Beattie, Correspond- 

 ing Member of the Society. The excellence and economy 

 ot Mr. Atkinson's plan of constructing Vineries, is now very 

 generally ascertained. By having introduced an easy and 

 complete mode of ventilation, he has rendered it unnecessary 

 to make the sashes moveable, and thus avoids the continual 

 liability to breakage, wliich there is M-ith moveable lights. 



IvrETEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



The science of Meteorology is peculiarly susceptible of im- 

 provement, by means of a combined system of experiment and 

 observation, carried on under the auspices of an associated 

 body of inquirei's. It embraces an immense variety of atmo- 

 sphei'ic phaenomena, presented to our view under multiplied 

 relations, modified in innumerable ways by the various confi- 

 gurations of the earth's surface, and connected, perpetually 

 and intimately, with the subjects of almost every branch of 

 scientific investigation. This character of the science, and 

 that more particularly when considered with reference to its 

 present defective state, clearly evinces the propriety, and even 

 the necessity, of giving to tlie pursuit of Meteorology a new 

 and determinate form, by affording it that powerful aid, — the 

 establishment of a Society expressly devoted to its cultivation, 

 — which experience shows to have been so effectual in pro- 

 moting the advancement of every department of knowledge to 

 which it has been applied. 



It is luider this impression that we have much satisfaction in 

 announcing the formation of the " Meteorological Society of 

 London," which took place on Wednesday the 15th instant, 

 at a meeting held for the purpose, pursuant to the notice 

 which was inserted in our last Number. The following ac- 

 count of the preliminary arrangements agreed to on the occa- 

 sion, has been transmitted to us by the Provisional Coinmittce ; 

 and we liave now only to exjiress our cordial wishes for the 

 pros])erily of the untlertaking, and «ur hopes, that this So- 

 ciety, closelv and harmoniously allied by its extensive objects 



\o\. (J2. Xo.aOfi. Oct. 1823. Q q of 



