MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, &C. 
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long room were kept the whole of the Meteorological and 
Magnetic Instruments,* and no person ever remained in it 
except to take an observation, nor at night was any light kept 
burning,—there were 5 glass windows in this room—the mid¬ 
dle one marked b was always kept open, a and c but rarely; 
the sliutters of the window h facing the East were shut till 
noon, they were then opened, and those of the window d 
closed. The room k e o f was kept for books and the 
native writer sat there, the door was always kept open as 
well as tiie door e and likewise the window/’. The European 
assistants sat in the hall k l and I took for my office the room 
g m p l of which p was always kept open with the door m 
the window g and the door L Now in this building in which 
there were 7 windows, 3 were always kept open, and the whole 
of the doors of which there were 6, and I am told that there 
was ventilation without due circulation, although, for my part, 
I cannot see how one can be produced without the other. 
The verandah was an open one all round except at the S. East 
and S. West angles which were enclosed. The walls were 
two bricks thick and fourteen feet high, the verandah or ra¬ 
ther the attap roof came down to within 8 feet of the ground 
—clear of the windows but so as to prevent the direct rays of 
the sun from strik ng any part of the walls after 7 a. m. and 
before 5 p. m. whilst the circulation of air was in no way 
impeded. The Latitude of the Observatory was 1° 18’ 38” 
North. The Longitude 6h. 55m. 28s. or 103° 58’ 30’’ E. 
of Greenwich. 
* T, Thermometer, Dry and Wet Bulb. B, Barometer. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , Nos. 90 and 
91 (from Prof. Jameson ) 
Want of space this month compels us to omit the list of 
the very valuable and varied contents of this Journal. A 
passage in one of the papers however requires notice. This 
is the Anniversary Address of the President, Dr Prichard, to 
the Ethnological Society for 1848, in which this Journal is 
noticed at some length and in terms which must be as grati¬ 
fying to cur contributors as they have been to ourselves. 
The sentence which requires notice is one in which Dr Prich¬ 
ard alludes to a narrative of “ his late excellent and much 
lamented friend, Mr G. W. Earle, who, if he had survived 
the voyage on which, to the deep grief of his friends, and 
