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tive t ; sufficiently rex xplicit, and a rous with a temperature below 50°, than when above that h re 
gape adjective is ae ered, rm ad &e., a | rea bobs. that fast Ha i consumption eA but little infu- | tls yas tok ictims of their i tnoompe tency. “Never er- 
pound one as large- Aa ies (or rath enced by the temperature; and that the dea ths from diarrhoea | “Bless Ma is a good book viewed from a different 
The head genera and spec er aS | were eight times more sa during high than low tem- of v 
5 i —_ a j Tol he paper was don otod, by Dr. i =m 
author A s i ideration of the above facts in greater detail.— ree Visits to Mada d 
system - Ai: depends in the first | Tipe to a coner einai 4 G i agascar during the Years 1853, 
On the Determination of the Mean RTTY of the At 1854, 1856. By the Rev. Wm. is Svo. M. ay. 
on a 4 n ever n the ~ 
species) is very so SA caveat workedout. “The species,” | Observations taken at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 470, = numerous rd phs. 
s l arked, “in the ordinary traditional the years yo to 1858.” By James yoy Esq., F. om a adagascar, n island far a oy in = ivib te 
septation of the pā, d esignate ee SF not eee mpeg on OP eke the pera nae pre [a savage oniy, , “extendin to over an area larger than 
descendedfro! om oneoriginalplant or pair we ra aa ofthe atmosphere, deduced from a series of observations that of Great Britai n and Ireland combined, and in- 
Bat this definition is practical useless, as we have no | extendin a- period of several ean” Tables, showing | ha by more aillions of people,” lying, 
of ascertaining the hereditary history of in the mean daily readings of the barometer for a period of | moreover, othe an easy 8 ail of one of our richest colo- 
pans dit ee eover cons sidered theo ti- 18 years, were then exhibited, and from these a curve had ie 
Evidoal plants, and it 15 mor AA i- | been laid down, by which the most probable mean pressure of nies, is less known than any ee rtan o! 
ally incorrect by those who deny th the atmosphere for every day in the year has been determined. | the world Eaa New Guinea A few traders have seen 
å ber of indiv: -n duals or pel ste of R EaR ag spree a Se =e anpe, thal mikan rpceodes D it; the French have or had # some code ae 
peren stoc “ -n ne cohen “tie sae the lowest point which is found in the curve daring this s month, the coast, and to Flacow coe nd others of t! that nation we 
dastly distinct races have escen . has therefore | the reading increases very e evenly, averaging about tw owe the most importan t par of the Badrie we 
irely to reject hereditary as thousandths of an inch daily, to the point 29.768 inches on possess; a few tayed in it long enough 
efiniti i as Semer n ag ul Pooran at 3 prom tie wi net to make collections of _ vegetation, which is ex- 
2 uals either in their | paging again begins to ri i tremely rich and remarkable; Put the number of its 
or in their internal structure, or in their point 29.815 inches, at Which value it remains Ta P snay plants that have — rape. is extremely y 
tiological jhenomena oe common character or com- æ nan the anae stipes pr March Taarn ae the aey r Of its interior so lit known in 1817 that 
bisstion characters distinguishing the m from all during the ine mr eat Paes capre, until the the lish Government imagined ae the chief 
ethers. in Nature there ar es 29.938 G on "the sth, whieh is the culmi- | 0f one of its pro be 
actly al every [n > point i 's curve, and m: increase of | lond of the Siole: ge and pema into 
Sari ~~ „when fis f one sant kpe ainoa the comm mencement o of the. mia. From | treaties with him accordingly. Sir Robert Farquhar, 
parent, no itius i 317 made 
pet to the rh at = ont a onto thus Haoss a but = = & erage S daily ay aral ber yw ma, a 
defined becom: rbitrary as the genus housandths of an on enn e reading ine views, was fully aware of the impor’ opening 
 @ collection ot ‘pee Peet reduces the rules of | reached egion y 3. =f aA Pa pan ngiki g e ely ree this great, country and the measures y on taken 
case in ril 28, p on him were for a time perfectly successful. Inter- 
with the i ished, 
to little more tine aul of arena The author | The roading now gradual eih fall to 29.736 inches a Ma: ay, nee: he 
however confessed himself “to be on e of those who — pn cr ame eget n that a ieee ind even mne oraait converted the inhabitants and e ght 
havea firm belief that there eee a Nature a certain | which it remains pies” pm ay wpa Jane $, an ty ‘hen de. | them to read, and all promised = mtn come to 
miber of species, he print ve wea sanji A re | creases ate 29 Stinches by the! 14th. m June}4to June 26 the Farquhar’s measures. But Radama died, his suc- 
orld oreases, woes remains almost without | cessor fell under the aeaa of the native pate 
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pore Testo ita it sam gn eral vids hat change oe the vy bet it se uana» twel ere 
has its present g pori a t “the q ee ae 
traditional doctrine that png acd d tree ~~ ae eta art lor ‘aia fon avani ve > p Epai and Europeans, a aan ttemp to ov the 
Testo after his =n and no Asin is a a correct one” th avery Fs Kasir Gna Smarr: A on m ga pae tae was poe che 1 Gms rag and French, ho in 
author p ag to explain more in de e n change occurs Angust $, unsuccessfully bomba: the port matave, 
the species A riso commences, as regular as ho fall at the latter part | with meee d com 90879 had had w krym intercourse, 
hes. tha! 
precise m sitachad -to spec 
ities which he thus ass to have a real and | till September 7, the reading, ine 
existence. The "easel argument was 5 saiid is ee second i a in the qo es ps weer pe ners ‘At las t in "1852 the agents 
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ki out of Mei and as points immaterial to the | prom pe eet the pe st Pong eradually falls to 29.800 inches n pe on Hiin onary Society re] ree that favourable 
the manency Or degeneracy of species on September 12, and still py ppd Seog to fall, but much more political and other Khen were in progress, and the 
tted, (1) that not all h it es 29,687 inches on homey arid the Society resolved upon making cole atten pt to introduce 
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famer period of the earth’s existence there were pe inio, of thi i tion was confided 
October 9 to 29 it steadily rises to 29.783 in h ot, må fron this os <1 wer e operatio 
namerous ae a extinct, and it is believed that cause id strides, Akida A o 90.80 oh es in et ne! ene "of f Polynesian 
there was a time ity of the plants now | November 9; after which time it falls very rapidly to 29-084 eran a p= nce of similar bar- 
covering the surface of the globe did vot exist ; (2) ch. is: the ng in the years | bar’ Arias wh 16 As with great 1 me a firm- 
that each species may or may not have been origi- | on yoy “es 
cage in a single peer agar or Ear of im | place until December 29, the read 
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have been T t a “a ‘ingle spot 5 (4) | ber 30 and 31 scarcely sea change occurs, but ftom this time | ¢ me X: 
| anuary 3 a all, f | ing because the author’s love for Natural History led 
that species may or may not have been originally i hu 
| formed b; the meen’ dean! of some pre- | 22 inch daily, takes aint: from the 3d it still continnes to fall, him to pay as .muc ch attention to gn se ubje ect as his 
rly existing one, during eologi peri riod anterior but wog gra adually ana piana pa Be pee n the reading 29.722 important and onero’ us duties of pre io kind 
to ould in existence, itted. ‘\dld to this that the vi 
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à er geological peri and not at imaginary scenes from the 
tion. eglect- Notices ot - of Books. who cannot penal on t faithful copies of photographs 
th troversial points,” Mr. Bentham went on obtained by himself. So that we who live at at ease 
to say, “ I have been in the habit of i i i verano sea have received the | are furnished with true sun- ictures of much 
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areall or may have been all ani ayee a common | Warezewiczella pian es Cattleya ana Telipo- | Ellis’ y oot a forest 
Their variations would be s wasp as we | gons, Oneidiums, &e. No hing surprises than | with ‘epiphytes ere 72) in the neighbourhood. of 
observe among individuals which we “se or believe to | the reference of Morren’s genus Dossinia to Blume’s | Ta d by way of introducing our adventurous 
tae had such common descent ” The there a tity Macodes, a decision which, wit it. orld be assented to, | author to t the a panies we may 
indi d friend’s own genera. gives of his discoveries at is RPE After 
masts we must judge of it | Si 
ee nee careful consideration k, ah cha- seal ee, we venture to express a hope that 4, a 
rope Bod known, reel in allied species, ge the dissections placed immedi- | a ne ‘Kind ‘of ti mé 
generation after genera. ‘aly A ith the spec id to which they belong. | well together, at the pete te of four or five miles an hour. 
to, daara by b change oot soil, climate, or other To jumble up, ie the same plate, the analyses of several | They con continued without stopping for about three bours, 
dreumstances, an: paaa variati apak: s ether like the ingredients in an olla | when we reached Vohidotra, a sort of 
by causes which ther appreciate, or which are r arida if most perverse innovation, which has ruined | village on the northern side of a tolerably broad piece 
known to occur without at assignable ca cause. The con- |M. Baillon sai Euphorbiaceous figures, and which | of water oe an outle 
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the human | having at length recovered his sight sufficiently to district, and soon ” found such numbers o0 Orchids 
he relative | work. We are promised the sixth part s ily, D. v. | growing so Juxuriantly, and in such picturesque posi- 
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reading of which was not concluded. | B k), is a devout work the purpose 0 of which is indica- | growth, that I hastene 
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arge-flo Erie, or le by Little, by F. W. Farrar (small | would remain before reco ee urney. 
a white variety of Ononis 8vo, Black), pand. and will doubtless receive the induced one of them to aceom- 
> ccm a variety of \ © ities for its style and good intentions. “it is | pany me asp a seein to the wood, and having 
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chair. 17.—N. Beard 
kimo s Bhie ee a AA ai r wok | away under the influence o 
i Nothing can be better than the man th 2 mera before 
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differed in man: a before 
of the surrounding districts; that the tem- | poor Eric hero ~~ story, are chargeable far morial of the t i 
That the: ae rise so high by day, nor fall. so low by night ; apa E is caper is companions, From Dr.| me. While the light was tra erring the forms of the 
bd consequently lees, apd. Fhat Rowlands gr principal, down one of his subor- trees and the flow stothe paper in the camer a Takat 
Greenwich, te waa doeacin Jenson then ab 
sete ir Boys are mosi in en cauiee ol pbir ant and 
ed i r ; that. a jt was but the commencement of 
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Cae sonny cee Air abaruod with drono ivin : e d | man er: 
the London atmosphere, deozonised by intermixture with ligently permitted 00 Aah Pigh en ae ps y with- ne Some {not refrain from gathering @ bundle 
ture on mortality, the sensing ee of tempera- debauchery, of fini o where we expected to halt for 
be ey balow tor the dents from + igo ks, with a | out one rational ark groan i are bet T venta | th om a ot aarti I found the ay aa w 
; during an’ ” were | Thi edy ment; com ; 
ceeding 50°, the deaths a with a temperature ex- ‘eve presori Ted A tievi. To use mera sra s own | my trl rount nd the camera r ready to 0 proceed ; 
e- | expressive epithet the masters were “ muffs, » and the (an 
