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la making some preparations of bismuth I have been unable to obtain these 

 two compounds, the salt crystallizing out was in both cases, — and also when a 

 large excess of potash salt was employed, — only the Jacquelain salt. 

 I. II. Cal. 



Bi — — 40.88 



CI M.16 34.63 34.85 



K 16.66 16.13 15.42 



HO 8.46 8.36 8.85 



The salts separate out first in rhombic tables, but as they increase in size, they 

 assume the form of a rhombic oetohedron, with largely extended terminal planes, 

 and two side polars (brachy domes), which is the well known form ol Jacque- 

 lain's salt. 



If the above mixtures be boiled in hydrochloric acid without the addition of 

 any water, a granular salt separates, the formula of which is 2 K CI + Bi OF 



+ 3 HO. 



Cal. 

 Bi 42.82 42-39 



CI 34.91 36.13 



K 15.83 15.91 



HO 5.66 5.51 



99.22 100.00 



No anhydrous crystallized salt could be obtained by any means. 



H. C. 



METEOROLOGY. 



At the third ordinary meeting of the Canadian Institute, during the past 

 Session, a report was submitted and adopted from the Committee on Meteorology, _ 

 after a reference to Professor Kingston, the Director of the Magnetic Observatory, 

 "We now print, by order of the Council, the Report of the Committee, along with 

 that from the Director of the Observatory. Their publication has been delayed. 

 owing to the absence of Professor Kingston in Europe. 



REPOKT OF THE METEOROLOGICAL COMMITTEE, 



Mead before the Canadian Institute, 9th January, 1858, 



BY PEOBESSOE KINGSTON, M. A. 



In the spring of 1856 a Committee was appointed by the Canadian Institute, 

 for the purpose of conferring with Dr. Ryerson, the Chief Superintendent of 

 Education, relative to the system of meteorological observations about to be insti- 

 tuted at the Senior County Grammar Schools in Upper Canada, and to consider 

 the steps necessary for rendering the system complete. 



That so long a delay should have occurred in presenting a report demands some 

 explanation. 



The object set forth, it should be noticed, in the appointment of the Committee, 

 was not, as some have erroneously supposed, to institute or even to propose the 

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