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who has been an ironmonger for nearly fifty years, and by him the 

 lock was pronounced such as was frequently brought to be re- 

 paired about the time of his commencing business. The bolt is 

 round ; the key must have been without a pipe, similar to a door- 

 key, and the form of the lock is different from that now made. 



The complete preservation of the lackering — a circumstance in 

 itself worth notice — has led me to suppose that the lock was nearly 

 new when the formation around it commenced. 

 Waterford, March 15th, 1842. I remain, &c., Hugh N. Nevins, 



SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, Part X., is just published, contain- 

 ing, — Gauss, on Forces acting inversely as the square of the di- 

 stance ; Prof. Dove of Berlin, on the Law of Storms ; Dove, on Non- 

 periodic Variations in the Distribution of Temperature on the Surface 

 of the Earth ; Liebig, on the Azotized Nutritive Principles of Plants ; 

 Cauchy, on the Theory of Light ; Bunsen, on the Cacodyl Series ; 

 Ehrenberg, on numerous Animals of the Chalk Formation which are 

 still to be found in a living state. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR MARCH 1842. 

 Ckiswick.—'Ma.Tch 1. Showery : clear. 2. Overcast : stormy and wet. 3. 

 Cloudy. 4. Overcast. 5. Clear and very fine. 6. Slight haze : very fine. 7. 

 Cloudy : slight rain. 8. Very fine : heavy rain. 9. Stormy with heavy rain. 

 10. Boisterous: clear at night. 11. Densely overcast. 12, 13. Cloudy and 

 fine. 14. Drizzly. 15. Hazy : very fine. 16. Hazy : overcast. 17. Fine : 

 stormy and wet. 18. Cloudy and fine. 19. Clear and cold : stormy with hail. 

 20. Cloudy : showery : squall in afternoon. 21. Stormy: showers. 22. Cloudy: 

 rain. 23. Very clear : hail-shower. 24. Hazy. 25. Cloudy: stormy with rain. 



26. Clear : cloudy. 27— 29. Very fine. 30. Rain. 31. Rain : cloudy : boiste- 

 rous with rain at night.— The mean temperature of the month was nearly 3° above 

 the average. 



Boston. — March 1. Rain: rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 2. Cloudy. 3. Ram: 

 rain early a.m. 4. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 5—7. Fine. 8. Cloudy. 9. Fine : 

 rain P.M. 10. Stormy : rain early a.m. 11, 12. Cloudy. 13. Fine: rain early 

 A.M. 14. Cloudy. 15. Fine. 16. Cloudy: rain at night. 17. Fine: rain 

 at night. 18. Windy. 19. Windy: rain at night. 20. Cloudy : rain a.m. and 

 r.M. 21. Windy. 22. Fine: rain p.m. 23. Fine: snow a.m. : rain p.m. 24. 

 Cloudy : rain a.m. 25. Fine. 26. Windy. 27. Fine : rain p.m. 28. Fine. 



29. Fine : rain early A.M. 30. Cloudy. 31. Rain : rain early a.m. 

 Sandwich Manse, Orkney.— March 1. Cloudy : aurora. 2. Clear. 3. Cloudy : 



rain. 4. Clear. 5. Cloudy: showers. 6. Bright: cloudy. 7. Cloudy. 8. 

 Shower: clear. 9. Clear. 10. Sleet-showers: clear. 11. Showers: rain. 

 12. Bright: clear. 13. Hail-showers : clear. 1 4. Cloudy : clear. 15. Cloudy : 

 aurora. 16. Cloudy: rain. 17. Clear: rain. 18. Cloudy: showers. 19. 

 Cloudy: large hail. 20. Showers. 21. Cloudy. 22. Snow-showers: cloudy. 

 23. Cloudy : drizzle. 24. Drizzle. 25. Showers : sleet. 26. Snow-showers. 



27. Snow-showers : cloudy. 28. Rain : showers. 29. Sleet-showers : showers. 



30. Cloudy : showers. 31. Damp. 



Apjilegartk Manse, Dumfriesshire.— March 1 . Cold, with slight showers. _ 2. 

 Shower of snow: rain. 3. Heavy rain. 4. Showers. 5,0. Fair and mild. 

 7. Slight showers : rain p.m. 8, 9. Hail-showers. 10. Hail-showers, with snow. 

 11. Heavy rain. 12. Fair but threatening. 13. Fair. 14. Rain all day. 15. 

 Mild and moist 16. Drizzling: rain p.m. 17. Fair a.m.: heavy rain p.m. 

 18. Showers. 19. Slight showers. 20. Fair : snow on the hills. 21. Fair and 

 clear. 22. Slight snow : frosU 23. Frost : fair. 24. Fair and fine : slight frost. 

 25. Wet p.m. : violent wind. 26. One slight shower. 27. Frost a.m. : rain p.m. 



28. Wain p.m. 29. Fair. 30. Showery. 31. Wet A.M. : cleared up. 



