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MR. GOADBY. 
It will be in the recollection of the Fellows of the Royal Society, 
and of those distinguished persons present at the evening parties of 
the Marquis of Northampton during the last season, that great ad- 
miration was excited by Mr. Goadby’s beautiful anatomical prepa- 
rations of the lower classes of animals, preserved in fluids discovered 
by him after years of laborious and expensive experiments, and dis- 
played in glass cases, also of his own invention and manufacture, 
admitting the full examination of every part of the animal, either by 
the eye or microscope. These preparations, on more than one occa- 
sion, attracted the especial attention of His Royal Highness Prince 
Albert, whose knowledge of natural history enabled him to appre- 
ciate their value. They were also seen and much admired by Sir 
Robert Peel, and it is with the utmost satisfaction we are able to 
state, that, with the discriminating patronage of science and its cul- 
tivators, which distinguishes him, and which he lately evinced in re- 
gard to Mr. Peach, he has recently presented Mr. Goadby with one 
hundred and fifty pounds from the Royal Bounty Fund as a reward 
for his labours in this department of natural history. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR ocT. 1845. 
Chiswick.— October 1. Very fine. 2,3. Rain. 4. Cloudy and fine. 5. Cloudy 
and fine: clear. 6. Foggy: cloudy: rain. 7. Rain: cloudy: clear. 8. Foggy: 
fine. 9. Rain: clear. 10. Heavy rain. 11. Rain, with fog: showery: clear: 
slight frost. 12. Dense fog: cloudy: fine. 13—16. Very fine. 17—19. Over- 
cast and fine. 20. Densely overcast: clear and fine. 21,22. Fine. 23. Fine: 
clear and frosty at night. 24. Dense fog: very fine. 25, 26. Foggy : partially 
overcast. 27. Overcast: clear. 28—30. Very fine. 31. Overcast—Mean tem- 
perature of the month 3° below the average. 
Boston.—Oct. 1. Fine. 2. Rain: rain early a.m. 3. Cloudy: rain a.m. and 
pM. 4. Fine: raine.m. 5. Fine. 6. Fine: rainr.m. 7. Rain: rain early am. : 
rain a.M. 8,9, Fine: raine.m. 10. Fine. 11. Rain: rain early a.m. 12. 
Fine. 13. Cloudy: rain earlyam. 14—16. Fine. 17, 18. Cloudy. 19. 
Cloudy: rain a.m. 20. Cloudy. 21. Fine. 22—24, Cloudy. 25, 26. Fine. 
27. Cloudy. 28. Fine. 29. Cloudy. 30,31. Fine. 
Sandwick Manse, Orkney.—Oct. 1. Showers. 2 Bright: clear. 3. Cloudy: 
drops. 4. Showers. 5,6. Bright: clear. 7. Rain. 8. Rain: damp. 9, 10. 
Rain. 11. Showers: rain. 12. Bright: cloudy: halo large. 13. Rain. 14. 
Cloudy: rain. 15. Cloudy. 16. Showers. 17. Showers: sleet: cloudy. 18. 
Showers: clear. 19. Cloudy: rain. 20. Rain: showers. 21. Cloudy: damp. 
22. Damp: drizzle. 23. Damp: cloudy. 24. Bright: rain. 25. Bright: 
cloudy. 26. Showers: rain. 27. Showers: bright: cloudy. 28. Rain. 29. 
Drizzle: cloudy. 30, 31. Showers: clear. 
Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire.—Oct. 1. Fair, but threatening. 2. Dull: 
rain, 3. Deluge of rain: flood. 4. Soft rain aliday. 5,6. Fair and clear: 
hoar-frost. 7. Fair, but cloudy. 8, Fair am.:raine.m. 9. Rain early a.m. : 
cleared. 10, Slightshowersr.m. 11. Fine: rain, 12. Fair, but cloudy: halo. 
15. Rain. 14. Fairand fine. 15. Wet a.m.: cleared. 16. Fair and clear. 
17. Rainallday. 18. Frequentshowers. 19. Rain. 20, Bitter showers. 21. 
Moist, but no fall. 22. Fairand fine. 23. Fairand fine: cloudy. 24. Drizzling 
p.m. 25. Beautiful day: one slight shower. 26. Fair, but chilly : rain p.m. 
27,28. Wet. 29. Wet: very wet p.m. 30. Wet early a.m.: fine pm. 31, Fair 
and fine. 
Mean temperature of the Month ........sceeseseeeere 49°°6 
Mean temperature of Oct. 1844 —...seeseee weceieisctate 47 -2 
Mean temperature of Oct. for twenty-three years . 46 *4 
