138 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
and ethical works, looking rather to the difficulties of grammar and phil- 
than to their ethical value. Science is the technical term at Ox- 
ford for moral —, and each separate treatise is called a science ; 
—thus asi student who has read Aristotle’s Ethics and Rhetoric, a Dia- 
ood’s object was to call attention to the neglect of the retinal 
and physical sciences, and to the great proportion of persons rejected 
or plucked at the final examination, and contended that these evils were 
avoided by the system pursued at Cambridge. 
6. Modification of Dr. Whewell’s Anemometer, for measuring the 
Velocity of the Wind; by Dr. Rosrnson, (Brit. Assoc,, from the Ath- 
enzum, Sept. 19, 1846.)—Dr. Robinson explained to the section ver- 
bally the nature of the various anemometers hitherto employed to meas- 
ure the force of the wind, and distinguished Whewell’s from them, as 
a measure merely of comparative rate. The fault of it was, that the 
instrument gave no absolute measure of velocity in miles per hour, and 
that it reduced the rates to no standard, and therefore the observations 
made at one observatory were not capable of comparison with those at 
another. He had applied an observation of Mr. Edgeworth, who was 
a family ene of his own, to the construction of such an addition 
as would render Whewell’s anemometer more perfect in this respect. 
He deciad on a vertical axis three or four arms, carrying a 
ical cups at their extremities. ‘These cups opposed much less resi 
tance to air acting on the concave sides than on their convexities, wo 
‘in such ratio that uniform revolution was produced at the rate of one- 
third of the ity of the wind. From this measure, which would 
-be the same for all sizes of the instrument, and at all places, the mean 
— of te wind during a given period ‘could always be obtained in 
miles per He concluded by reading some of the determinations 
of his own crm at the observatory at Armagh. 
7. On the se a a l Distribution of Round and Elongated Cra: 
nia; by Prof. Rerzius, (Proc. Brit. Assoc., from the Athenzeum, Sept. 
19.)— —On this pa ra lengthened discussion arose on the degree to 
which physical peculiarities of races may become modified by climate, 
education, progress of civilization, and the effect of dwelling with high- 
erraces. Mr. Lyell gave it as the result of his recent observations in 
the Southern States of America, that the negro race is much altered 
does exist, the result is ever to retain and 68-8 the higher devel- 
opments on the white races 
» 8. On the Deviation of Falling Bodies from the Perpendicular j 
by Prof. Sacthats (Brit. Assoc., from Athen., Sept. 26, 1846.)—I shall 
give a short history of these experiments, as far as this can be done by 
