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nal ; although in many other places, where the observations 

 have been carefully made, I might have selected you a longer 

 period; but the variety of this month in temperature, the 

 thermometer in the clockcase having been at l6° and at 47% 

 is perhaps as severe a test as could be brought forward. 

 Rate of my transit clock made by Mr. Barraud. 





1807. 











Fi 



rora Nov. 



26 







" 





To Dec. 



9 



.... 



+ 



1,3 







10 



.... 



+ 



1,4 







14 



.... 



4- 



1,3 





1808. 













Jan, 



3 



.... 



-f 



1,3 







4 



.... 



+ 



1,1 







6 







+ 



1,2 







12 



.... 



+ 



1,2 



These were the only days on which I could get an ob- 

 servation. 



I remain, dear Sir, 



Your obliged Friend, 



And humble Servant, 



W. WALKER. 



A/an or House t Hayes ^ Middlesex, 

 20th January, 1S08. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Wernerian Natural History Society. 



J\T the last meeting of the Wernerian Natural History 

 Society, (1st August) Dr. James Ogilby of Dublin read a 

 very interesting account of the Mineralogy of East Lothian, Mineralogy of 

 which appeared to have been drawn up from a series of ob- East Lotluan. 

 servations made with great skill, and was illustrated by a 



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