294 Analyses of Books. [Ocr. 
Comparison of Observations. 
1813. 1814, 1815. 
Morfling® ..s...2/e)|) 24% 097) 18!) | 240 12! 53 24° 16' OI” 
Aprilc.¢ Noo ts ....0...0) 24) 21 12 v4 23 53 24 27 AQ 
Bvening:......:.-| 94 15 25 24... 15 320 : 22 BT AS 
Morning ......,.| 24 12 02 24 13 12 24 16 32 
May vd Na Pe crabic wate, ere 24 20 54 24 22 13 24 27 03 
Fiveniniy. ac) oe. tb 24 13 47 24 i6 44 24 19 12 
Morning ,...-... 24 12 35 94° 13° 10 24 16 It 
@UNe...... J xovs peatte tias tips 24 22 17 24 22 A8 24 27 18 
Evening .....0.. z4 16 04 24 16 29 24 19 40 
Morning ...... --| 24 14 32. 24 13° 29 24 15 51 
Jaly ... | Noon eae = seesf- 24 23 04 24 23 AA 24 25 45 
Evening.........-| 24 16 43 24 17 00 24 19 42 
Morning .....-..| 24 15-595 94 14 #13 24 16 Ol 
August... 4 oo MU Al nae aes 24. 23. 32 24 23 48 24 24 O07 
Byenings.. sonc6255 £4 16 08 24 16 31 24 18 22. 
ge Between noon of the Ist Aug.2 y.0,- « 
Rain fatlen ies noon of the Ist att 1845 inch, 
Eyaporation during the same period .....,.... 3°42 
Errata in the last Number of ithe Annals of Philosuphy, 
In the remarks on the variation, after the words ‘ the morning and noon observa 
tions,” insert ‘* on the 20th.” 
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Articie VIII. 
ANALYSES or Books. 
The Literary and Scientific Pursuits which are encouraged and 
enforced in the University of Cambridge briefly described and vindi- 
cated: with various Notes. By the Rev. Latham Wainewright, 
A.M. F.A.S. of Emmanuel College, in that University, and 
Rector of Great Brickhill, Bucks. London. Hatchard. 1815. 
Tue outery which has been raised against the English universi- 
ties, and the very general opinion entertained for some time past 
that they are rather theatres of dissipation than of learning and 
science, have been attended with several good effects. They have 
produced, it is said, a reform in Oxford, where’the defects, if we 
believe Gibbon, and some others who have written on the subject, 
were great, and almost intolerable : and this reformation, if our in- 
formation respecting that University be correct, might be carried. 
still further, with considerable advantage to the young men who 
frequent it. They have occasioned likewise the present publication, 
which makes us acquainted with the mode of education followed at 
Cambridge, the sister University, long celebrated for the attention 
which she pays to mathematics and the mechanical sciences, 
