66 = eoNenth. oc Byel. 
the most eligtble method of conducting Meteorological Ob- 
servations.” This excellent paper contains all that is most 
material to be done on this subject, although the recent direc- 
tions from the university have given additional precision. 
Meteorological observations are made, apparently with at- 
tention, by Samuel Williams, at Chilicothe, Ohio, and _ the 
detail for one year, with the temperature for morning, noon 
id night, ‘of each day, has reached us through Niles’s Re- - 
It is desirable to know the state of the climate 
In the Western States, where, as yet, there have been fewer 
accurate 2 me than in the Eastern and Atlantic 
States, and we trust we may look to Mr. Williams for in- 
teresting res 
Meteorological Registers are often forwarded to us through 
the medium of new spapers printed in particular places, thus 
evincing that there is considerable attention paid to this sub- 
ject; and it would be very desirable that the ideas of Prof. 
Dewey shesle.t be adopted, so far at least as to induce observ- 
orm periods and modes of making and 
seeeoing ibs observations now so incon ngruously made, that 
they may in this manner be brought to one pfandard, 
es eee : ex 
Art. V.—On Fuel.* Communicated for e American 
Journal. of iy &c. By ELIsHa eat M. D. of 
_. New-London, C 
Eveny kind # el may be arranged into two classes. 
Ist. at_ which consists of bituminous. or h droge 
matter, and cemponpceous Se 
whe 
~ Some eae think that bituminous and hydr 
-Mnatter are very much alike, or nearly the — 
The wrifer wishes res ctfull to 
der to Profesor Sitllaisac tal ath eras eh olgons Cab lochs 8 
on 3 and also tras “ta tna in his private letter, on 
ject of fuel. — reader will perceive from Prof. Silliman’ Sremarks on Penn- 
sylvania coal, already published, that there < Some difference OF pinion be- 
tween him and the present writer, This. 'wever, is not very unusual, on a 
philosophical subject, that is liable to be slr alate by the eseratiog of one’s 
