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each other."* This prediction is signally verified by the results of the hygrome- 

 trical observations taken on the mountains, in the years 1852 and 1853. 



It is proposed to follow up and conclude the series of annual papers on the 

 Meteorology of the Lake District, by an essay " On the Physical Geography of the 

 English Lake and Mountain District," for which I am now engaged in collecting 

 materials. This treatise, in addition to the meteorological facts and results 

 arrived at in the course of this inquiry, and the aerial phenomena common or 

 peculiar to mountain localities, is intended to embrace the subjects or sciences 

 usually included under the head of " Physical Geography," — as the Geology, 

 Botany, Ornithology, and Entomology of the district, in connection with cli- 

 mate and elevation ; and special attention will be directed to the plants and in- 

 sects (Lepidoptera) indigenous to the mountain regions. As the English Lake 

 District presents a wide and rich field for research in these departments of 

 science, it is hoped that, with competent assistance, this work will not be wholly 

 destitute of interest or importance to those occupied in similar investigations, in 

 other and widely different localities. 



* Philosophical Transactions, Part ii., 1849. 



OtSKFUVATORY, WHITEHAVEN, 



April 15, 1854. 



