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ment which swept over Italy, as well as the rest of Europe, he be- 

 came Captain of Engineers, and he received on the field of battle, 

 from the hands of" the Emperor Napoleon, the Italian decoration. 



" It would be difficult to describe the energy with which he related 

 to me one dav, whilst walking on the banks of the Arno, the whole of 

 his military life, and particularly all the sufferings to which he was 

 a prey during the too celebrated Russian campaign. 



"Order and peace restored M. Nobili to his first studies, as they 

 restored to them, by a remarkable coincidence, a man who has fol- 

 lowed a similar route in science, M. Becquerel, who had also been 

 Captain of Engineers. 



"Appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Museum of 

 Florence, that establishment to which his celebrated friend and coun- 

 tryman M. Amici is attached as Astronomer, M. Nobili gave during 

 two years, to a numerous auditory, lect\ues at once correct and full 

 of new views. It is by his cares, and by those of the director of the 

 establishment, that, thanks to the munificence of the sovereign, the 

 cabinet de physique has become one of the first in Europe, particu- 

 larly with respect to the history of science. 



" M. Nobili was one of the forty of the Italian Society, a corre- 

 sponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and of 

 several other learned bodies j he died August l/th, 1835, of a slow 

 entreglite under which he had suffered for a long time. 



" A man of courage and rectitude, always lively and brilliant in 

 his private conversation, a skilful experimentalist, a learned philo- 

 sopher, he left in his friends, in the friends of Italian glory, a deep 

 grief to have seen him so soon snatched from their friendship and 

 from science. 



"The Grand Duke of Tuscany has ordered a monument to be 

 raised to M. Nobili, by the side of the most illustrious Italians, in 

 the church of Santa Croce, the Italian Pantheon. Honour to the 

 prince who thus knows how to appreciate real merit i" 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JULY 1836. 



Chiswick.—iu\y \~4. Very hot. 5. E.xcessively hot: thunder at 

 night. 6. Thunder, which in London and its immediate neighbourhood 



was accompanied by hail of large dimensions : the latter, as also the light- 

 ning, did considerable damage. 7—11. Very fine. ] 2. Rain : very fine 

 13, 14. Very fine. 15. Cloudy. 16— 18. Fine. 19. Rain! 



20. Showery and cold : highest temperature in the day 35" lower, in the* 

 shade, than that on the 5th. 21. Fine : thunder showers : hail'in some 

 parts of the country. 22—26. Cloudy and fine. 27. Overcast : 



lightning at night. 28. Very hot. 29. Heavy rain : stormv at ni<rht*. 



30. Showery. 31. Cloudy and fine : rain. " " 



Boston.— iu\y\.¥mc. 2. Cloudy. 3— 5. Fine. 6. Cloudy • 



ram early A.M. 7— 9. Fine. 10. Cloudy. 11. Fine. 12. Cloudy '• 

 rain early A.M. l."?. Fine. 14. Cloudy. 15. Rain. le.Cloudv- 



17, 18. Stormy. 19. Cloudy. 20. Rain. 21. Cloudy : rain a.m' 



and P.M. 22. Cloudy : rain p.m. 23. Fine : rain p.m. 24. Rain 



25. Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 26. Cloudy. 27. Cloudy • raiii 



early a.m. 28. Fine. 29. Cloudy : rain early a.m. : rain p.m 



30. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 31. Fine. 



