Miscellanies. 



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cury in the cistern — the bottom of which is of leather — and in not 

 having a neutral point marked upon it. The bulb of the wet ther- 

 mometer was covered with cambric, and previously to each observa- 

 tion dipped into water. 



While, therefore, the results exhibited in the following table, may 

 not be rigidly correct, it is hoped that the publication of them may 

 be the means of spreading information, and of inducing others to 

 lend their assistance on the specified-days to the collection of materi- 

 als, which will tend to advance a knowledge of the science of the 

 weather, so highly important to the seaman and the farmer, and in- 

 deed to every class of the community. 



The form of the following table, with the exception of a column 

 for rain, which is omitted, as none fell within the period embraced in 

 the observations, is copied from that employed in recording the obser- 

 vations taken on those days, under the direction of the Royal Soci- 

 ety of London, of which those for June and September last, have 

 been published in the London Athenaeum. 



