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MR. LONSDALE. 

 We regret to hear that the Geological Society of London will 

 shortly be deprived of the services of their invaluable Curator and 

 Librarian, Mr. Lonsdale. Intimately connected as we have been for 

 many years with this Society, we can well appreciate the sorrow 

 which this announcement has caused to all the members, — who 

 thoroughly estimate the high qualities of this eminent person, and 

 entertain the deepest gratitude for the devotion and unrivalled skill 

 with which he has, during the last thirteen years, arranged their 

 collections and conducted the publication of their volumes. Mr. 

 Lonsdale's retirement, we are grieved to say, is occasioned solely by 

 the state of his health : and to this notice of the loss which the 

 Geological Society is very soon to suffer, we shall only add our 

 hope, that a naturalist and man of letters may be found competent 

 to succeed him as editor of the Geological Transactions*. 



* Upon this subject we believe that application may be made to the Pre- 

 sident and Council of the Society at Somerset House. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1842. 

 Chiswick. — April 1 . Heavy clouds : rain : slightly overcast. 2. Rain : clear and 

 cold, with brisk N.E. wind. 3. Very clear : cloudy: slight hail shower. 4. 

 Cold and dry : clear and frosty at night. 5. Clear and cold, with very dry air : 

 sharp frost at night. 6. Slight haze. 7. Cold and dry : densely overcast. 8^ 

 Cold and dry : sunshine through slight haze : clear and frosty at night. 9, 10. 

 Cold and dry. 11. Slight shower : clear and cold. 12. Cold and dry : cloudy. 

 13. Cold rain. 14. Showers, partly hail. 15. Bleak and cold. 16. Clear and 

 cold, with parching N.E. wind. 17, 18. Overcast. 19. Dry haze: clear and 

 frosty at night. 20,21. Slight haze : very fine. 22. Foggy: dry haze : clear 

 and fine. 23. Very fine. 24. Very fine : heavy thunder storm in afternoon, 

 with partial showers of rain, and large hail in some parts near London. 25. Very 

 fine. 26. Clear and dry. 27. Fine: air exceedingly dry : slight frost at night. 



28. Hot and dry. 29. Slight haze : fine. 30. Fine. 



.Boston.— April 1. Cloudy : heavy rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 2. Stormy : rain 



early A.M. 3,4. Cloudy. 5,6. Fine. 7. Cloudy. 8—10. Fine. 11 13. 



Cloudy. 14. Rain: rain early a..m. 15. Cloudy. 'l6. Cloudy : rain p.m. 17* 

 18. Cloudy. 19, 20. Fine. 21— 23 Cloudy. 24. Fine. 25. Fine : foggy early 

 A.M. 26—28. Fine. 29. Fine : foggy early a.m. .<30. Cloudy. 



Sandwick Mnnsc, Orhieij. — April 1. Show'ery. 2. Snow showers. 3. Clear: 

 aurora. 4. Clear : cloudy. 5. Cloudy : rain. 6. Clear and wai-m. 7. Fog. 

 8. Cloudy and warm. 9. Cloudy. 10,11. Clear. 12. Clear: aurora. 13' 

 Cloudy: clear. 14, 15. Clear. 16, 17. Cloudy. 18. Drops. 19. Cloudy 

 20. Clear. 21. Fine. 22. Clear: fog. 23. Cloudy. 24. Clear. 25. Very 

 clear. 20. Very clear : aurora. 27. Very clear and warm, 28. Very clear • fog 



29. Very clear. 30. Fog : cloudy. 



Apptegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire. — April 1. Showers. 2. Hail. 3. Frost: 

 slight A.M. 4. Fair and clear : frost A.M. 5,6. Slight frost a.m. 7. Fair, but 

 cloudy. 8. Fair and fine. 9. Fair and fine : slight frost a.m. 10. Fair and 

 fine: no frost. II. Pair and fine : frost ,\.m. 12. Fair and fine, but withering. 

 13. Cloudy and droughty. 14. Droughty, but threatening rain. 15. Droughty: 

 still fair. ) 6. Droughty. 17. Droughty : frost a.m. 18. Droughty. 19. 

 Droughty: frost A.M. 20. Droughty and warm. 21. Droughty. 22—30. 

 Droughty : very withering. 



Sun shone out 30 days. Rain fell 1 day. Hail 1 day. Slight frost a.m. 9 

 days. Fair 28 days. 



Wind north 1 da V. North -north-cast ^ day. North-east 54 days. East-north, 

 east 3 days. East 7 days. East-south-cast 1 day. Soutb'idavs. South-west 

 3 dayij. West-south-west 2 days. West 1 i day. North-west i2 days, North- 

 nortli-west I \ day. 



