Meteorological Observations. 79 



MALACOciniLA Dryas. 



Head, chocks and car-covcrts jet-black, the feathers of the crown 

 somewhat lengtliencil ; back, wings and tail dark j;recnish-ohve ; 

 centre of the throat and nnder snrface pale bnfty-yellow, blending 

 into the olive of the upper sniface on the tlanks ; the feathers of the 

 breast and upper part of the abdomen tipped with olive ; bill and 

 eyelash orange-red ; legs and feet orange-yellow. 



Total length " inches ; bill § ; wing 3} ; tail 2g ; tarsi 1^ ; middle 

 toe and nail 1^',. ; hind-toe and nail ^. 



llab. Guatemala. 



Remark. — In size this bird is rather smaller than the European 

 Redwing, 'Turd us Iliucus. — From the Zooloyicul Proceedings, Nov. 

 28, i8r)4. 



The late Mr. Newport. 



A plain but handsome monument, of A-berdeen granite, has recently 

 been placed in the cemetery of Kensal Green, to the memory of the 

 late George Newport, the eminent naturalist and physiologist. The 

 uiscription on the stone, which we give below, implies strongly, if it 

 does not formally express, the merits of the deceased. The fact of 

 having a public monument raised to him by those who knew him 

 best, his friends and fellow-workers, is an eulogy of a kind which can 

 never be called in question, though his own scientific writings con- 

 stitute his best and most enduring epitaph. 



Inscription. 

 Sacred to the Memory of George Newport, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 F.R.C.S. &c. &c. He was born in Canterbury on the 4th day of 

 July, 1803, and died in London on the "th day of April, 1854. 

 This monument was erected by Fellows of the Royal and Linufean 

 Societies to commemorate their regret for the loss of a much-esteemed 

 colleague, and to testify their sense of the great services rendered by 

 him to Science. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR NOVEMBER 1855. * 

 Chiswick. — November 1. Cloudy : frosty at night. 2. Overcast and cold : heavy 

 rain. 3. Showery. 4. Fine. 5. Clear : dense fog : very tine : rain. 6. Fine. 

 7. Cloudy. 8. Constant heavy rain. 9. Slight fog : tine. 10. Foggy : very fine : 

 foggy at night. 11. Very fine : cloudy. 12. Hazy. 13. Overcast. 14. Fine: 

 frosty at night. 15. Frosty and foggy : very line : dense fog at night. 16. Dense 

 fog. 17. Fine: cloudy: rain. IH. Hazy : cloudy : rain. 19. Rain. 20. Drizzly: 

 fine. 21. Overcast : rain. 22. Drizzly : overcast : fine. 23. Cloudy. 24. Cloudy 

 and cold : showery. 25. Cloudy: clear: sharp frost at night. 26. Very fine. 

 27. Overcast : slight rain. 28. Overcast : cloudy : lunar rainl)ow at 10 p.m. 29. 

 Overcast : cloudy. 30. Overcast : very fine. 



Mean temperature of the month 40°'84 



Mean temi)erature of Nov. 1854 39 "35 



Mean temperature of Nov. for the last twenty-nine years ... 42 '95 



Average amount of rain in Nov 2*347 inches. 



Boston. — Nov. 1. Fine. 2. Fine : rain p m. 3. Cloudy: rain p.m. 4. Fine: 

 rain a.m. 5. Cloudy: rain p.m. 6. Rain a.m. 7. Cloudy. 8. Cloudy: rain 

 A.M. and P.M. 9. Fine. 10. Cloudv. 11. Fine. 12— 15. Cloudy. 16, 17. Fine. 

 18, 19. Cloudy : rain p.m. 20. Cloiidy. 21. Cloudy : rain p.m. 22, 23. Cloudy : 

 rain a.m. and p.m. 24. Cloudy : rain p.m. 25. Cloudy. 20. Fine. 27. Cloudy: 

 rain p.m. 28. Cloudy : rain a..m. and p.m. 29. Cloudy : rain p.m. 30. Cloudy. 



* The observations by the Rev. C. Clouston of Sandwich Manse, Orkney, 

 have not been received. 



