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survey made by him some years since, gives reason to expect from 

 his report much important and accurate information. 



Botanical Committee. 



The Committee recommend, that Professor Lindley be requested 

 to prepare for the next meeting an account of the principal ques- 

 tions recently settled, or at present agitated, in the philosophy of 

 Botany, whether in this country or abroad ; 



That botanists in all parts of Great Britain and Ireland be invited 

 to compose and communicate to the meetings of the Association 

 catalogues of county or other local Floras, with indications of those 

 species which have been recently introduced, of those which are rare 

 or very local, and of those which thrive, or which have become or 

 are becoming extinct, with such remarks as may be useful towards 

 determining the connection which there may be between the habitats 

 of particular plants and the nature of the soil and the strata upon 

 which they grow ; with statements of the mean winter and summer 

 temperature of the air and water at the highest as well as the lowest 

 elevation at which species occur, the hygrometrical condition of the 

 air, and any other information of an historical, (Economical, and 

 philosophical nature. 



Note. — If upon this plan a complete botanical surv'ey of the British 

 islands could be obtained, the results would be important when the 

 Flora in the aggregate came to be compared with its relations of 

 soil, climate, elevation, &c. 



XXXI. Litelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



gUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



MR. FARADAY, finding that he has been considered, both abroad 

 and at home, as the Editor of the Quarterhj Journal of Science, 

 has requested us to state that he has never in any respect stood in 

 that position, except in part for the Miscellanea only : — that he de- 

 serves no praise for the good it may have done to science ; and that, 

 on the other hand, he is not responsible for anything but the papers 

 and notices which bear his name or initials. — Editors. 



LETTER FROM DR. HODGKIN SUGGESTING PARTICULAR OBSER- 

 VATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC PHyENOMENA DURING THE PRE- 

 SENT SEASON. 



To Richard Taylor, Esq. 

 Respected Friend, 

 I shall be much gratified by thy introducing into thy forthcoming 

 Number an invitation to thy philosophical and observing readers, to 

 contribute notices of any phaenomena which they may have had the 

 opportunity of remarking, in connection with the present season. 



It has frequently been stated that a variety of phfenomena, meteo- 

 rological, zoological, botanical, and chemical, have presented them- 

 selves 



