THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Ocromzm 15, 1864, 
990 
n more felt even than is warranted | by th $ 
hat treatises e jlaining the metric| been more y he 
it London Er o "P eder — lid gta es son MES laid before fall in 1863, because the ground has had no c = 
to dura to drin Orion by i lateral Bre a jo; a wo Rr: ahid Y TT han 
: s an it measures, with s uitable ih 1861. ^ qe amy fem r eid e » is e 16 E ii 
Th but was stopped by an pas ag ig a: d | exercises on those tables ; P. NM T inspectors of a Southel igne ing oom a hich d ch d is 
ames, * 1 1 3 can i a : 
by the "Conservators of the river, by enn qm A a n the Kabject of temperature, oisi the ji ipe m of rs pend 1738 
been taught that such nuisances here hat was | it is A Focon that the. — of Reports to be | thwai ^ is i = a Ple. 8 A. Drishai 
continued. The question — is bad been prove ed. tion relat tive to tempe- Dalma n y Ti M s, with an annual 
be done with it? Two facts had be icons, 
Ba esi Senes i it was proved that the re. den to both the pie nd P ME Cs eat ri paper on te ^ Deng a ah 
o a of sewage by lime would purify w water and thermometers ; = stat : TM OA P | nial the Natural Provisions for toning Of Sexe cy 
ivi ion,” printed at length in pp. and 987, 
prevent L “becom d | should be divided | bo th Ua to € oli für tion," prin. gth E 
then it had been Ae. store wrt cud, hed | and Fahrenheit ror ve eda di avi emt pst On Pus — seed in Section E re x. 
rn t : I 
to their normal condition. This fact was | divided into fracti a a OA Velioys of CHA MAR 
uo ‘eared t that the products M it had been | those of the foo tand | inch. ien Piura, and the 
w 
d ses | adjacent Deserts. e gave an elaborate deser; 
thought would be ufi = “to pay gre ese works, S The following. table, by Mr. Samuel quas conden ur du soil va d climate of those district of tion 
ti ure ; and except i i ifferent Peruvian i 
meh - 2 Aca ae Eu the fertilisation of land, it ll pass : species of Cotton-tree named ossy pian eee Š 
had proved utter! Pages d a aie ed "MÀ was - Wricuts. so successfully cultivated. The memoir will be 
experiment at Croydon, which coran | | Surface. | Capacity. | Weight. published by the Indian Government for dis 
successful There the river formerly was reped Length. | Surface. | — M i et Rogge (6 planters in Tadia weit the alee 
the iuc sas d Ms at Ari powege Was rned int to | Myria.. — ..|10,000 ET T 10,000 the Cot! int ant were introduc ed b 1 
the land before NN ci the river, ph purifying | : Kilo . ..| 1,000 +» | 1,000 1,000 > ergeni pec e humid nds P 
it of its offensive ingredients, and proving of great | S] Hecto — ..| 100 | 100 | 100 M | Che eimeindy of rain, y ertile 
+ jis d. Cro si had thus solv ed the E | eing the valleys of the numerous short streams which 
advantage to the land. Croy: = Deka . 1 | | fis à k flow from the Rados to the Pacific, Seasons of heavy 
Units Metre Am itre. | Gramme. | rain, nevertheless, occurred at long intervals, in some 
be fp care M apam -n haisen e kee m | H Deci 1 | | cases of 17 years.— Commodore Maury, in E 
submitted to the Metropolitan Board of vir: and | Z 4Centi 01 | D ES 01 91 |the probable mins of f the remarkable dryness 
stated that they had acted on the opinio : e Mr. | Š (aini «001 | oer | exceptional rains of 1 pi z fie . 
i iii igs Sa E. ? 
M € Pe Mrs ur dm e d Red The multiples of the unit, dno 1 each ense, are h a a of = the. — limitation of 2 bes that at 
nent, covered by i ere was à 
London eed a ae MA e made "n pr ria, 10, — PE or Chilio, 1,000; cto, or | peer climate, whilst at Piura, only 129 miles further 
t m Beain E dw raphy) Wwe. course of a paper [^ cate, 100 ; a, 10: whils tthe paced ncn “of the | south, but outside the belt, not a a drop of rain fell for 
on the “Increasing n ‘Tapitoatdon of Inner Southern | unit are AR by Latin prefixes:— Deci, 3th ; | 1T years. The cloud-belt was suspended over that 
Africa,” Mr. J. F. ilson remarked that the Calabari Centi, woth; Milli, wooth. The English ‘equivalents to | marrow zone which lay between the TE of th 
extent, gradually swallowir g — and he attribu 
lng portions o d habitable country Aa its boiler. Vido to the metric system, stand thus :— |the occasional rainy seasons at Piura to exce 
Sp f water have diminished in their flow, and | variations caen m which easel. E Eis 
d dly becoming so. Th ; : |' annual oscillatio he cloud-belt to exten 
grat pete Agra Aeda lot before the advent | Metric Names, English Equivalents. further to the south than was usually the case. 
of Europeans, if we may trust native itions, whi inches, | 
i imme enge | Millim?tre (1-1000 .] 90359 | d QUEEPGREIDE S 
ANI M Bub iA MIA of acon In tne Gentine (ACOD) z| os | Potices " Bone 
now not a single living tree is to be seen. The causes | Piper’ (110) — 4| „8.937 feet, ur | ume, 2 1 
in the physical characteristics of the | Dékamètre (10 mètres) | —.. — 32 10.936 | Ootheca t ran tr an ated persi m E 
ts. e RE otn mètres) f re 109.363 Collection of Birds’ id Boge pros by the late 
arid, : "ager F.Z.8. Edited by A. apet sae eA PLS. 
to, an 
| The m ite Mr. Wolley was an enthusi ast ren: of 
Natural Histor of 36, having - 
reais 
prev Metric Names. y. 
winds are from the north-east. The ouas, heavily gill. left his egg-cabinet, with a note-book y» » contents to —. 
laden with vapour a the Indian Ocean, are|Centilitre .. ..  ..| 0.070 his friend and fellow-traveller Mr. N es 2 
driven over Caffraria ring those lands inp istius Mon. 0.704 | quart. | notes Mr. N. is now publishing, with descriptions na ee 
but when the motive bearing n nimbi arriv he | Décalitre (16 nyes 7| ee = i) 559401000 quart. chromolit ograph plates of the eggs; to which in | 
Hectolitre (100 litres)... HRES ! 22 0.039 | accordance with the supposed wishes of his friend he — | 
the interior country, they are not only 3 epr piv $e -~ |has added the deseription of some others not ns 
alre: andy of part of their moisture, but they meet Mes | Marno. Werants, in Mr. Ws collection. 
-: faretied air of the ce om plains, and conseque METRIC NAMES. Avoirdupois. Troy. | The notes give a history of each egg in the collecti 
ise higher and e t tina ner vapour, Th i IO ae ected. —— | whence it was obtained, and when. ‘These little 
are few s «dg hae. r, bone e wholly destitute of |, délgramme (1-108)... cwb ars. | Ib. | oz. |drws. wv are written in a pleasant lively and 
Tagen, and large t abel are frequent; There is no | 3 oram T T ZO] ON dia32| worth perusing for the daring feats of clim 
district which doe: ts flocks of wild |1 déka ts gramme (10 by which bays oftentimes, the precious eggs 
animals; but the di od engen one or two inches 1 A (100 U E So | 5.604 ached, as this birds-nesting was not a 
of rain in the year is most severel y felt. The author grammes) RUMP SN iE .. |a.5oT the British Isles, a certain amount of fo 
x into the 1 kilogramme, or kilo 1 
peste, formations of the re| see the sources of| (1000 grammes) ..| .. | 2205 g the nests of the golden eagle Qus 
springs, that EM. water P. *^ throughout wide |! E. niis (io PT Chry 
— — below the surface of M ~~ and that = 1 metric quintal (or 100 M "M6 nr 
; $ wie "— Se ji A perean 2 it ae a 1 3874 E M 
PEG or irrigatio utasa y for the ee d ma EN onne 0 
evil, he laid De Lone, on gers Bas enactments | ee 19 2.78610 | Tie TPRI: dd 
the reckless felling of timber and burning of tbe m — In Section A (Physical Science Th 
pastures, which has been long practised both by the in a paper on the Rainfall s the British Isles ^ precipice | which gees 
meve D "4 European “Seine A men = le Mr. J. G. Sy a — z ag on | the exultation he felt. at se 
: was pre- mg the distribution rain during | th th 
sented by a Committee appointed nire into the | 1862 and 1863 may be thus briefly rketched. Takin | ue het omething cha ening 
means of for a U. of Weight tie ih i 4 d, 
E recridiong for a nr of Sigis m P n Matinee Iu. liis, Tm, 
€ 
yen 
te al git : jer : | mining, b 
EL EN NUM. E weights and avere of the lst half oontury; andthe fal in che ope repr A 
furtherance three years 1860, 61, 62 eus sper ‘difference He M 
desirable, from its scientific capabilities, to adopt the being less than 2 per cent. of quantity ; | Les water, Spe e quito. : 
metrie system ; Pas that as the pee which was rather drier than the others, a bit of rock, twice as bi r.a 
of this country Me " xr y under; rg ing a process of | | only differe d ay 5 per t The e very uniform | high Eee K 
ecimalisation, it w +e e more a vantageous, rene d | resulta surprising, considering that, in so di : Pi a former 
td drifting by degrees into a hetero, rogen 2 vari "irl MN "the fluctuation has been andy 100 per cent. tikoki My arm oa gt, hardly strength ta to boil z 
, to change at once to a rea Pire d or e, am, 1860 35 i ; bt e 
di The Committee also suggest that in etatistionl | 1863 cube. 18 es; £ Torosay Castle in "1866, E eds wind. A H beny ge, k es y n half 
doeumen issued ernment relat: was 70 inches, a 1 ches, | secon ‘oO mo z d "little removed Ay the first 
poe tod f d mete uni- | differences the of each other—in utiful. I tried to bor jp dus i » 
: on ems ee seo b case of 17 inehes excess in 1 in ther | rock, bat it was no go, and I ati 
system, equivalents in the y | th out the y remains nearly constant; it is, | did not strike agai P 
given for the ordinary English ions ngt in fact, a similar I tion 1 fonts totals to that ay fall va di at a A inken men ue é 
Y, bulk, and and they recommend the | whieh has prevailed d : h|fall into the water, Wer bani “hard PO sap 
edes 1 cases where i the El ot gist wry Se tS string; and I, coming across a sunken uh ee a 
} from want | peared beneath the surface. This htened there 
weights Re dry weather. - It is further evident, from the Mec m he Bafa, - me b 
average fall, that there _— been 
