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the zoology of his native country ; and the large number of his papers 

 in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' to which he has 

 been a contributor from the beginning, attest his great diligence in 

 this respect. He was an early friend of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, and at the meeting held at Glasgow 

 delivered in a Report on the Fauna of Ireland. He constantly at- 

 tended its meetings; and subsequently to his Report in 1840, he 

 contributed many papers on the Natural History of Ireland. It was 

 owing to his efforts that the Natural History Section was so remark- 

 ably successful when the Association met at Cork. His investigations 

 on the Zoology of Ireland were subservient to a great work which he 

 had planned on the Natural History of that island, and which, had his 

 life been spared, there is no reason to doubt he would have completed. 

 ' The Birds of Ireland ' was the first part of this work. Our readers 

 will be glad to learn that he had made arrangements for the publica- 

 tion of his MSS., and nominated two of his most intimate personal 

 friends in Belfast to take charge of the work, in the event of his death 

 before the publication of the remaining volumes should have been 

 completed ; there will therefore be no delay beyond what is absolutely 

 unavoidable. His loss will be deeply felt at Belfast, in the institu- 

 tions of which city he took deep and active interest. He died in the 

 forty-seventh year of his age. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JAX. 1852. 

 Chiswick. — January 1. Hazy: overcast. 2. Overcast : fine : slight rain. 3. Foggy: 

 very fine : cloudy : boisterous at night. 4. Clear and very fine : frosty. 5. Frosty : 

 clear and fine. 6. Clear : very fine. 7. Rain. 8. Cloudy : boisterous. 9. Quite 

 clear : overcast. 10. Frosty : clear and fine : rain. 11. Hain : overcast. 12. Con- 

 stant rain. 13. Foggy, with rain. 14. Foggy : rain. 15. Cloudy. 16. Densely 

 overcast : fine. 17. Very fine. 18. Hoar frost : very fine. 19. Frosty : very fine. 



20. Densely clouded. 21. Fine: rain at night. 22,23. Clear and very fine. 

 24. Rain. 25,26. Very fine. 27. Fine : rain. 28. Foggy : fine : clear : frosty at 

 night. 29. Foggy and frosty : very fine. 30. Rain: heavy clouds : clear. 31. 

 Densely overcast : rain. 



Mean temperature of the month 39°*66 



Mean temperature of Jan. 1851 40 -07 



Mean temperature of Jan. for the last twenty-six years ... 36*79 



Average amount of rain in Jan 1*68 inch. 



Boston. — Jan. 1,2. Cloudy. 3. Fine. 4. Fine: hail-storm early a.m. 5, 6. 



Fine. 7. Cloudy: rain p.m. 8. Cloudy. 9. Cloudy : rain a.m. 10. Fine. 11. 



Fine: rain early a.m. 12. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 13. Cloudy: rain p.m. 14. 



Cloudy. 15. Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 16 — 19. Fine. 20. Cloudy : rain p.m. 



21. Fine : rain p.m. 22. Fine : rain early a.m. 23. Fine. 24. Cloudv : rain a.m. 

 and p.m. 25, 26. Fine. 27. Cloudy: rain p.m. 28. Fine. 29. Foggy. 30. 

 Rainy : rain a.m. and p.m. 31. Cloudy: rain a.m. and p.m. 



Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — Jan. 1. Rain. 2. Showers: sleet-showers. 3. Cloudy: 

 sleet-showers. 4. Snow-showers. 5. Rain : cloudy. 6. Rain : showers. 7. Showers . 

 snow-showers. 8. Frost . cloudy. 9. Showers : snow-showers. 10. Snow- showers 

 cloudy. 11. Snow-showers : clear : aurora. 12. Cloudy : showers. 13. Showers : 

 clear : aurora. 14,15. Bright : cloudy. 16. Showers : cloudy. 17. Showers. 

 18. Showers: damp. 19. Bright: clear: aurora. 20,21. Cloudy: rain. 22. 

 Cloudy : showers : thunder and lightning. 23, 24. Showers : clear : aurora. 25. 

 Sleet-showers : aurora. 26. Drops : cloudy. 27. Hazy : cloudy. 28. Fine : clear : 

 large halo. 29. Drizzle: showers. 30. Showers : sleet-showers. 31. Showers : 

 thunder and lightning : showers. 



