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found to have great power in the development of marking ink, it is pos- 

 sible that it may possess for him some advantages over most other kinds 

 of natural and artificial light. 



As the progress of machinery is rapidly putting an end to the ma- 

 nufacture of hand-made nails, it is likely that horse- shoe nails will ere 

 long be produced by other methods, and the two plans for making 

 them here noticed be forgotten in the arts, and no memorial of them 

 left beyond this passing scientific notice, should it find a place in the 

 Proceedings of the Academy. 



The Eev. S. Haughtoi^-, T. T. C. J)., read the following paper, by 

 Br. Fleetwood Chuechill, L. K. Q. C. P. I. and L. E. C. S. L, late As- 

 sistant Surgeon in her llajesty's jSTavy : — 



On the Eain-Pall and Wind at Simon's Bat, Cape oe Good 



Hope. 



The following observations on the rain-fall and wind are ofi'ered as a 

 contribution to our knowledge of the climate of the neighbourhood of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. I have not given with them the observations 

 I made on the barometer, and wet and dry bulb thermometers, as I be- 

 lieve that observations made with these instruments have already 

 attracted the notice of meteorologists interested in the climate of the 

 Cape. 



My rain-gauge at Simon' s-town is twenty -one feet from the ground. 

 I was obliged to put it on the roof of my house, to get it clear of the 

 bushes in the garden. The ground the house stands on is, at the outside, 

 fifty feet above the sea. 



The following Table gives the rain-fall in each month from June, 

 1859. 



Taele I Rain-fall at Simon's Bay. 





1859. 



1860. 



1861. 



1862. 





inches, 



inches. 



inches. 



inches. 



January, 





0-62 



0-59 



0-53 



February 





1-58 



0-10 





March, 





1-06 



0-49 





April, 





1-23 



1-82 





May, 





4-16 



4-01 





June, 



5-19 



4-65 



4-81 





Jiiiy, 



3-22 



5-06 



3-58 





August, 



4-98 



1-06 



2-46 





September, 



2-19 



5-61 



2-89 





October, .... ... 



2-85 



1-12 



0-22 





November,. ..... 



2-G3 



1-00 



1-27 





December, 



0-72 



0-50 



0-05 





Totals, 





27-65 



22-29 





