438 Miscelianeous Intelligence. 
we have become acquainted. I refer to the concurrent testimony which 
observations at parts of the globe the most distant from each other bear 
to the existence of a periodical variation or abet tite epee — the 
magnitude of the diurnal variations and the magnitude and ency of 
the disturbances or storms. The cycle or npn of this inequalll ap- 
pears to extend to about ten of our years; the maximum and minimum 
of the magnitudes affected by it being separated by an interval of about 
five years, and the differences being much too great, and resting on an 
— far too extensive, to admit of uncertainty as to the facts them- 
The exist 
quency and magnitude of the solar spots which Mr. Schwabe has estab- 
lished by twenty-six years of unremitting labor. From a cosmical 
connection of this nature, supposing it to be finally established, it would 
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follow, that the decennial period which we measure by our magnetic 
exercises on the surface of our earth? 
eater follow on the measurements of the figure and 
siieahadauns of the globe—on the tides of the ocean——and on the isother- 
ma ines o ies It is also stated that * the ici derived a few years 
= equator appears to'stand-on the average rote 0-006 in. (more pre- 
sely 0:0057, in lat. 1° 19) higher at the moon’s ialaieini than 
elias she is six hours distant from the meridian.” 
The subject of Scientific Pensions has received successful attention 
from the Parliamentary Committee appointed at Ipswich, and a eens 
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the Geologist and Palzontologist, and to Mr. Ronalds, who has been 
for many years engaged in electrical researches. Another subject 
before this committee was that of ‘¢a more cheap and aparece 
tional communication of scientific publications,” respecting which it is 
said that ‘the credit of the first move towards the poe FN of 
this desirable object is due to the government of the United States; by 
‘whom an we was made for the admission duty —, - 
