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and was introduced by Lacepede to the Emperor Napoleon. At 

 the celebration of the centenary jubilee of the University of Got- 

 tingen, in 1825, the King of Hanover forgot not to visit the house 

 of his old preceptor, which, in 1786, he had so often frequented as 

 a student together with his two royal brothers, the Duke of Sussex 

 and the Duke of Kent. 



In Professor Blumenbach the world has sustained a loss of one 

 of those men of extraordinary genius whose talents are destined to 

 exert a large influence on the knowledge and opinions of the age in 

 which they live, and to advance permanently the progress of those 

 sciences to which they have devoted their attention. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1842. 



Chiswick. — April 1. Heavy clouds : rain : slightly overcast. 2. Rain : clear and 

 cold, with brisk N.E. wind. 3. Very clear : cloudy: slight hail shower. 4. 

 Cold and dry : clear and frosty at night. 5. Clear and cold, with very dry air : 

 sharp frost at night. 6. Slight haze. 7. Cold and dry : densely overcast. 8. 

 Cold and dry : sunshine through slight haze : clear and frosty at night. 9, 10. 

 Cold and dry. 11. Slight shower : clear and cold. 12. Cold and dry : cloudy. 

 13. Cold rain. 14. Showers, partly hail. 15. Bleak and cold. 16. Clear and 

 cold, with parching N.E. wind. 17,18. Overcast. 19. Dry haze: clear and 

 frosty at night. 20,21. Slight haze : very fine. 22. Foggy: dry haze : clear 

 and fine. 23. Very fine. 24. Very fine : heavy thunder storm in afternoon, 

 with partial showers of rain, and large hail in some parts near London. 25. Very 

 fine. 26. Clear and dry. 27. Fine : air exceedingly dry : slight frost at night. 

 2S. Hot and dry. 29. Slight haze : fine. 30. Fine. 



Boston. — April 1. Cloudy: heavy rain early a.m. : rain p.m. 2. Stormy : rain 

 early a.m. 3,4. Cloudy. 5,6. Fine. 7. Cloudy. 8 — 10. Fine. 11 — 13. 

 Cloudy. 14. Rain: rain early a.m. 15. Cloudy. 16. Cloudy : rain p.m. 17, 

 18. Cloudy. 19, 20. Fine. 21 — 23 Cloudy. 24. Fine. 25. Fine : foggy early 

 a.m. 26 — 28. Fine. 29. Fine : foggy early a.m. 30. Cloudy. 



Sandwich Manse, Orkney. — April 1. Showery. 2. Snow showers. 3. Clear: 

 aurora. 4. Clear : cloudy. 5. Cloudy : rain. 6. Clear and warm. 7. Fog. 

 8. Cloudy and warm. 9. Cloudy. 10,11. Clear. 12. Clear: aurora. 13. 

 Cloudy: clear. 14, 15. Clear. 16, 17. Cloudy. 18. Drops. 19. Cloudy. 

 20. Clear. 21. Fine. 22. Clear: fog. 23. Cloudy. 24. Clear. 25. Very 

 clear. 26. Very clear : aurora. 27. Very clear and warm. 28. Very clear : fog. 

 29. Very clear. 30. Fog : cloudy. 



Applegarth Manse, Dumfries- shire. — April 1. Showers. 2. Hail. 3. Frost : 

 slight a.m. 4. Fair and clear : frost a.m. 5,6. Slight frost a.m. 7. Fair, but 

 cloudy. 8. Fair and fine. 9. Fair and fine : slight frost a.m. 10. Fair and 

 fine: no frost. 11. Fair and fine : frost a.m. 12. Fair and fine, but withering. 

 13. Cloudy and droughty. 14. Droughty, but threatening rain. 15. Droughty: 

 still fair. 16. Droughty. 17. Droughty: frost a.m. 18. Droughty. 19. 

 Droughty : frost a.m. 20. Droughty and warm. 21. Droughty. 22 — 30. 

 Droughty : very withering. 



Sun shone out 30 days. Rain fell 1 day. Hail 1 day. Slight frost a.m. 9 

 days. Fair 28 days. 



Wind north 1 day. North -north-east ^ day. North-east 5^ days. East-north- 

 east 3 days. East 7 days. East-south-east 1 day. South 2 days. South-west 

 3 days. West-south- west 2 days. West 1£ day. North-west 2 days. North- 

 north-west H day. 



Calm 14 days. Moderate 9 days. Brisk 1 day. Strong breeze 6 days. 



Mean temperature of the month 45°'8 



Mean temperature of April 1841 44 -4 



Mean temperature of spring-water 47 '00 



