ADO Minevwlogy. 
8st. Jan. & Ist Feb. 
below zero. 
Salem, Mass., 17 
Gloucester, Mass., 14, 
Chelmsford, Mass., 17 
Concord, N. H., 26 
Brattleborough, Vt., BY 
Hallowell, Me. 30 
Plymouth, Mass., 13 
New Bedford, Mass., 35 
Springfield, Mass., 18 
Stockbridge, Mass., 16 
Portsmouth, N. H., 19 
Wiscasset, Me., 2A 
Amherst, Mass., 24 
Dorchester, Mass., 17 
Danvers, Mass., 16 
Hartford, Conn., 14 
Wilmington, Del., 26 
Hamilton, Ohio, 24th Jan. a 
On the 5thof February, the thermometer,* Fahrenheit’s 
seale, was forty and a half degrees below zero, at the tele- 
graph, on cape Diamond, Quebec. This telegraphic stationis 
near 400 feet above the level of the St. Lawrence. 
14. Officers of the Lyceum of Natural History of the Berk- 
shire Medical Institution, elected September 14, 1825. 
€uesterR Dewey, A. A. S., President. 
Davip Hunt, M. D., 
Joun P. Barcuetper, M. D.> Vice Presidents. 
Rev. Enwarp Hircucocg, 
Henny K. Srrone, Corresponding and Reeording Scereteny. 
end Treasurer. 
Jacos Porter, 
Henry H. Cuixps, M. D. 
Orain Wrient, Curators. 
Cuaruss A. Les, 
Garpiner Dorrance, 
15. Mineralogy.—A Manual of Mineralogy, in which the 
Séience is illustrated by cuts in the text, and a considerable 
number of coloured engravings is preparing for the press, by 
J. L. Comstock, M. D. of Hartford. 
* As mereury would have been frozen by this degree of cold, of course we pre- 
sume that the observation was made witha thermémeter filled swith aleohol. Extrror. 
