British -_ jation for the a ment of Science. 391 
Military Posts of the United States. Prepared under the direction of 
Thomas Lawson, M. D., Surg. Gen. U. S. Army. To which is appen- 
ded, the Meteorological Register for the years ars 1822, 1823, 1824, and 
1825: compiled under the direction of Joseph Lovell, M.D., late Sur- 
geon General of the U. S. Army. Published for the stent; Medical 
Officers of the Army.  Philad. 1840. 8vo. pp. 161. . aPiabin. 
This valuable work contains observations on the t , face 
of the sky, direction of the wind and the rain, at places ranging from N. 
lat. 27° 57! to. 862 B0yad from: W. dong: 67° to 96°. It is introduced 
by judicious ung comparative temperature and 
climate of the different secti ns f the country, and is accompanied by 
a map of the U. 8: indicati sitions of the various posts of obser- 
vation. The collection:will: be of much interest to meteorologists, but 
its value would have been’ none: igo had it comprised observations 
of the barometer. 
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on Thursday, the 27th of July. .The meeting. seems to eaionas con 
of great value to science. The proceedings of the various 
reported in the London Atheneum, are very full and interesting, and as 
far as published on. the 26th of August, had occupied over one, hundred 
and forty columns of that closely printed journal. We shall in our next 
number endeayor to give our usual. condensed abstract, which has been, 
as far as we ate. informed, the only American channel by. which a knowl- 
edgecof she doings. ofthis important bad has come to men aaa 
in this country. 
We once ay coniaiichs rt patie shodimita of our number, 
for. the purpose of laying before our.readers the following extract from 
the address delivered by the. President, Prof. Whewell, at the opening 
ofthe sepeting, r 
begins ‘by an allusion to an imaginary Philosophical Col- 
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lege, ae thet classic fable of which the great Bacon gives so remarkable a 
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