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PART IV. NATURAL HISTORY. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
1. — Quarterly JouRxVAL of Agriculture. 8vo., price 6s. 
Direction of the fVinds in the North of Europe, by M. Schouw. — "It results 
from the observations made by the author, that the western winds are more 
frequent than the eastern. This rule is without exception ; but the western 
winds diminish more and more as we approach tlie centre of the continent, 
being more frequent in England, Holland, and France, than in Denmark and 
the greater part of Germany; and more frequent in these latter countries than 
in Russia and Sweden. At London, the east wind is to the west, as 1 to 1,7; 
at Amsterdam, as 1 to 1,6 ; at Copenhagen, as 1 to 1,5^ at Stockholm, as 1 to 
1,4; at Petersburg, as 1 to 1,3. The west winds seem to incline the more to 
the south, according to the propinquity of the Atlantic Sea; towards the inte- 
rior of the continent they incline more to the north-west. The north winds 
appear to increase towards the east. Amongst winds which come from the west 
that of the south-west predominates in England, Holland, and France; that of 
direct west in Denmark, and the greater part of Germany ; at Moscow the 
north-west predominates; at Petersburg and Stockholm, the north wind is 
much more frequent than in the western parts of Europe. In the western and 
middle districts of northern Europe, such as England, France, Denmark, Ger- 
many, and Norway, the west winds are much more frequent during the sum- 
mer, than during winter or spring. This does not appear to be the case in 
Sweden and Russia. During the winter the west winds are more southerly; 
during the summer more direct and more northerly. — Jahrb, der Phys, und 
Chemie, 1828." 
2. — The Bee Garden, or a Treatise on the Management op 
Bee.s. By John Wallace, Gardener, Dalguise, Perthshire. 
On the produce of Bees. — " It is not to be expected that many will attend to 
Bee-husbandry, merely for the sake of pleasure ; but profit may induce others 
to follow that employment during their leisure hours. Often has the indus- 
trious labourer or mechanic, been relieved from embarrassed circumstances by 
the toil and labour of a swarm of bees, when he could avail himself of no other 
mode of relief. Not only are bees of immediate profit to their owners, but 
were they encouraged to the extent of which the pastures of the United Kingdom 
could permit, they might become even a source of national wealth. It is esti- 
mated by persons of learning, that the pasture of Scotland could maintain as 
many Bees as would, on an average, produce 4,000,000 pints * of honey, and 
1,000,000 lbs of wax. Were this quantity tripled for England and Ireland, the 
produce of the empire would be 12,000,000 pints of honey, and 3,000,000 lbs 
of wax annually. The income that would thus arise from honey, at the very 
' Scotch Measure ; the Pint is equal to two English Quarts. 
