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potash it disengages ammonia and afterwards hydrogen, and is 

 changed into acetic and oxalic acids. 



6th. Asparagin and aspartic acid, treated with hyponitric acid, are 

 converted, like the amides, into water, nitrogen, and into malic acid, 

 which remains in the liquor. This result leads to the adoption of 

 the opinion that these two bodies arc amides of malic acid, corre- 

 sponding to oxamide and oxamic acid. — Ann. de Ch. et de Phys., 

 Fevrier 1848. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR FEB. 1848. 

 C/iwicici.— February 1, 2. Clear and fine. 3. Cloudy. 4. Overcast : rain. 

 5. Densely overcast : heavy rain at night. 6. Overcast and mild. 7. Densely 

 overcast : rain. 8. Cloudy and fine. 9. Cloudy : boisterous : clear. 10. Very 

 fine : heavy rain at night. 11, 12. Very fine. 13. Overcast. 14. Rain. 15. 

 Densely overcast : rain. 16. Frosty: clear and fine. 17. Clear: cloudy and 

 fine. 18. Fine. 19. Rain: hazy and damp. 20. Foggy: cloudy: clear. 

 21. Overcast: rain. 22. Rain. 23. Heavy clouds : fine, 24. Densely overcast : 

 rain. 25. Rain : showery. 26. Barometer most remarkably low : boisterous, 

 with heavy rain. 27. Heavy rain : clear and boisterous at night. 28. Fine : 

 clear. 29. Very clear : boisterous, with rain at night. 



Mean temperature of the month 39 "62 



Mean temperature of Feb. 1847 34 "79 



Mean temperature of Feb. for the last twenty years 39 "32 



Average amount of rain in Feb I'95inch. 



Boston. — Feb. 1, 2. Fine. 3. Cloudy. 4. Rain. 5. Cloudy: rain p.m. 

 0. Rain. 7. Cloudy. 8. Cloudy : rain p.m. 9. Cloudy : rain early a.m. : rain 

 A.M. 10—13. Fine. 14. Rain : rain p.m. 15. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 16— 

 18. Fine. 19. Cloudy: snow early a.m. 20. Rain. 21. Fine: rain p.m. 

 22. Cloudy: rain p.m. 23. Fine : rain p.m. 24. Cloudy : rain p.m. 25. Fine, 

 26. Fine: rain early a.m. 27. Cloudy: rain early a.m. : rain a.m. 28. Cloudy. 

 29. Fine. 



Applegarth Manse, Dumfriesshire. — Feb. 1. Hard frost a.m. : thaw and ram 

 P.M. 2. Thaw : threatening frost again. 3. Thaw : rain : high wind. 4. Heavy 

 rain: snow gone. 5. Heavy rain : floods. 6. Moist a.m. : showery p.m. 7. Thick, 

 fog ending in rain. 8. Heavy rain all day. 9. Rain a.m. : cleared : rain p.m. 

 10. Slight showers. 11. Very fine spring day. 12. Dull morning : wet p.m. 

 13. Heavy rain and high winds. 14. Fair, but threatening change. 15. Rain 

 all day. 16. Frost : a shower of snow. 17. H.-ird frost : hills white : snow. 18. 

 Hard frost: rain p.ji. 19. Showery. 20. Beautiful day: slight frost a.m. 

 21. Raw frost a.m. : moist. 22. Storm of rain and wind : flood. 23. Stormy day : 

 violent showers. 24. Snow for two hours : heavy rain. 25. Fair and milder. 

 26. Fair a.m. : drizzle p.m. 27. Heavy rain all day. 28. Heavy rain : thunder, 

 29. Showers : hail. 



Mean temperature of the month 40*1 



Mean temperature of Feb. 1847 36 "2 



Mean temperature of Feb. for twenty-five years 37 '3 



Rain 5'53 inchc!". 



Mean rain In Feb. for twenty years 2'04 „ 



Siindwkli Manse, Orhueii. — Feb. 1. Snow showers : cloudy. 2. Frost : clear. 

 3. Cloudy : showers. 4. Rain : damp. 5. Snow-drift : snow. 6. Snow : cloudy. 

 7. Rain, 8. Bright : showers. 9. Cloudy : damp, 10. Rain : cloudy. II. 

 Bright: cloudy, 12. Rain: showers. 13. Showers. 14. Showers: clear. 

 15. Damp ; rain. 16,17. Bright : frost. 18. Sleet : rain. 19. Sleet-showers: 

 showers. 'jO. Bright : snow-shower'. 21. Snow : red aurora. 22, 2:3. Cloudy : 

 rain : aurora. 24. Bright: fro»t : fine : aurora. 2.5. Showers. 26. Cloudy: 

 hhowers. 27. Showers : rain. 28. Damp: rain. 29. Clear : cloudy. 



The following arc the averages for Dec. 1847, with which we have been fa- 

 voured by our correspondent the Kev. Ch. Clouston of Sandwick Manse, whose 

 usual report miscarried owing to the stormy weather which then prevailed : — 



Barometer. 



A.M. p.m. 



29-597 29-595 



Thermometer. 1 Ilain 



A.M. P.M. I in inches. 



39-93 40-CG I 5-24 



