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to devour them the inst.int weakness or injury prevents their keeping 

 in niutiun tlie cilia, which serve both for locomotion and defence. Let 

 these cease to move, a regular attack is made, and the animal is soon 

 devoured ; and it is interesting to observe several of these scavengers 

 sporting in the cm])ty shell as if in derision at the havoc they have 

 made. The sliells are mere sjjecks ; what must be the size of the 

 conquerors, when the speck-like shell will hold several of them ! 

 Thousands of both of the young animals perish early — in a few hours 

 after coming into existence ; this must be the case, for if all came 

 to maturity that are hatched, our coast would be literally covered in- 

 stead of being only spotted, 



OuiTUAiiY. — It is with much concern that we record the early 

 loss of a very distinguished cultivator of botanical science : 



Died at Malacca, on Sunday the 9th of February, after a short 

 illness, William Grifhth, Esq., of the Madras Medical Service, and 

 late Acting Superintendent of the Honourable East India Comjjany's 

 Botanic Garden at Calcutta, after having been antecedently employed 

 in the scientific missions sent into the Tenasserim provinces, to Assam, 

 to Suddujow and Ava, Bootan, Afghanistan, Khorassan, &c. He was 

 an active member of several scientific societies in Europe, and was 

 in his thirty-fifth year. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1845. 



Chiswick. — April 1. Slight haze : clear. 2, 3. Foggy : fine: dear. 4. Foggy: 

 cloudless. 5. 'riiick haze : fine. 6. Clear and fine . sliarp frost. 7. Clear and 

 frosty : very dry air : slight frost. 8. Densely overcast : cloudy : sharp frost. 

 9. Foggy: overcast. lU. Showery throughout. 11. Uain: dense clouds and 

 colli : frosty at night. I'J. Cloudy and fine : rain. 13. Showery : clear and fine. 

 14. Boisterous. 15. Boisterous, with sliglit rain. IC. Overcast : fine. 17. Fine. 

 18. Overcast: fine. 19. Overcast and told : very fine. 20, Slight haze : very 

 fine. 21, 22. Very fine. 23. Sultry. 24—26. Very fine. 27. Showery. 28. 

 Overcast. 29. Very fine. 30. Overcast. — Mean temperature of the month 1° 

 above tlie average. 



Boston. — April 1. Cloudy. 2 — 5. Fine. 6. Fine: ice this morning. 7. 

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

 rain A.M. 12. Cloudy. 13. Cloudy: rain p.m. 14. Windy: rain p.m. 15, 

 Cloudy and stormy: rain early a.m. 16. Cloudy. 17. Fine. 18. Cloudy. 

 19—21. Fine. 22. Cloudy. 23—25. Fine. 26. Rain. 27. Cloudy. 28— 

 30. Fine. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkney. — April 1. Bright: damp. 2. Bright: clear. 3, 

 4. Clear: cloudy. 5. Clear. 6. Fog: clear. 7,8. Bright: clear. 9. Rain: 

 cloudy. 10, 11. Bright: cloudy, 12, 13. Cloudy: clear. 14. Rain: clear. 

 15. Clear, 16. Cloudy : drizzle. 17. Drizzle : fog. 1 8. Bright : fog. 19. Clear. 

 20, 21. Fine : clear : fine. 22. Fine. 23. Fine: fog. 24. Cloudy. 25. Bright : 

 cloudy. 26. Rain: damp. 27. Bright : cloudy. 28. Showers. 29. Bright: 

 clear. 30. Cloudy. 



Ap}itegaTlh Manse, Dumfries- shire. — April 1, 2. Fine : dry : hoar frost. 3. Re- 

 markably fine. 4. \'ery droughty : raw frost. 5. Very droughty, but milder. 

 6. Hoarfrost. 7. Slight frost. 8. Uain and hail. 9. Slight showers. 10. Fre- 

 quent showers. 11. Clear : fair, but cold. 12. Cloudy: drops : rain. 13. Hail 

 and rain. 14. Slight showers. 15. Dry and cold. 16. Fair : fine : slight frost. 

 17. Very fine. 18, Fine, 19—22. Fine : droughty. 23, 24. Fine. 25. A few 

 drops: rain. 26. Heavy rain. 27. Heavy rain and flood. 28. Fair, but un- 

 settled. 29. Shower p.m. 30. Heavy rain p.m. 



