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Museum 2500 specimens of dried jjlants, 100 specimens of woods, 

 dried fruits, a flower and younf^ leaf of the Victuria regalix, and se- 

 veral other botanical specimens jjreserved in spirits, a collection of 

 bird-skins, ujnvards of 100 specimens of fishes in sj)irits, a geological 

 collection, and an ethnological collection. Tlie lloyal College of 

 Surgeons has been presented with some skulls, a perfect skeleton, 

 nnd a number of plaster casts. The model-room of the Admiralty 

 has received a collection of woods ; the Royal (Jarden at Kew several 

 living ])lants ; and presents of curiosities from Guiana have been 

 made to ditfercnt scientific societies and institutions. 



METEOROLOGICAL OB.SEIiV ATIOXS FOR NOV. 1841. 



Chiswick. — Nov. 1 . Overcast : boisterous. 2. Constant heavy rain : boisterous 

 at night. 3. Cloudy and fine. 4, 5. Ch)udy. 6. Overcast. 7. Rain : cloudy. 

 8. Overcast: heavy rain at night. 9. Hazy clouds : fine : clear. 10. Clear and 

 fine: rain. 11, Densely clouded : fine. I'J. Hain : drizzly : boisterous, witli rair> 

 at night. 13. Heavy rain. 11. Ilain. 15. Cloudy. 16. Hazy: clear. 17. 

 f^"g?y- 18,19. Overcast. 20. Mazy : clear and fine. 21. Foggy throughout. 

 22. Hasy. 23. Foggy. 24. Hazy : cloudy. 25. Cloudy and fine. 2G. Clear 

 and frosty. 27. Sharp frost : foggy : clear and frosty at night. 28. Foggy : 

 cloudy. 29. E.isterly haze : foggy. 30. Overcast. — Mean temperature of the 

 month 0°"85 above the average. 



Boslon. — Nov. 1. Cloudy. 2. Stormy: rain p.m. 3. Rain : rain early a.m. : 

 rain P.5I. 4. Rain : rain early a.m. : showery afterwards. 5. Cloudy : rain early 

 AM. : showery afterwards. 6. Rain: rain early a.m. : rain a. »i. and p.m. 7. Fine. 

 8. Cloudy: rain p..m. 9. Cloudy. 10. Fine : rain p.m. 11. Fine: rain early a.m. 

 12. Cloudy : rain p.m. 13. Cloudy : rain a..m. and p.m. 14. Fine. 15. Cloudy : 

 rain early A. Jt. 16. Fine. 17 — 20. Cloudy. 21. Fine. 22. Cloudy: first ice 

 this morning. 23. Cloudy. 24. Cloudy : total eclipse of the moon visible 1 1 p.m. 

 25. Cloudy. 26, 27. Fine. 28—30. Cloudy. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkney. — Nov, 1. Cloudy. 2. Damp. 3. Bright: clear. 

 4—7. Fine. 8, Showers. 9 — 11. Rain. 12. Cloudy. 13. Frost: fine: 

 cloudy, 14. Frost: fine: cloudy: frost, 15. Rain, 16. Rain : drizzle. 17, 

 18, Cloudy. 19. Bright: hazy. 20. Showers. 21. Bright: cloudy, 22. 

 Bright: clear: aurora. 23. Bright: clear. 24, Clear. 25. Cloudy. 26. 

 Bright: rain. 27. Cloudy: damp. 28, Cloudy: clear. 29. Rain: clear. 

 30. Bright : clear, 



yfpplegartk Manse, Dumfries -shire. — Nov. 1, Fair: wind high, 2, Very slight 

 shower, 3. Very slight shower : clear. 4, 5. Fair, but threatening. 6. Cloudy 

 and damp. 7. Fair and fine. 8. Dull a.m.: rain. 9. Fair, but dull. 10, 

 II. Cloudy A.M.: rain p.m. 12. Rain. 13. Fair and mild. 14. Heavy rain : 

 flood. 15. Fair and fine. 16. Fair and fine, though cloudy. 17. Damp: slight 

 shower. IS. Rain p.m. 19. Fair and fine. 20. Fair and fine : frost a.m. : fog. 

 21. Fair and fine : frost. 22. Slight rain. 23. Fair, but dull. 24. Fair : frost. 

 25. Fair : slight frost a.m. 26. Fair, but cloudy. 27. Cloudy A,>r. : rain p.m. 

 28. Fair, but dull. 29. Shower. 30. Fine : frost a, m. 



Mean temperature of the month 43°'6 



Mean temperature of Nov. 1843 41 -7 



ISIean temperature of Nov. for twenty years 39 '9 



Mean temperature of spring-water 47 '0 



Mean temperature of ditto Nov. 1843 ,., 44 -2 



