+------------------------------------------------------+ | FOR AUGUST, 1827. | +-------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+ | | Thermometer. | Barometer. | Wind. | | +------+-------+------+------+-----+-----+ | |Lowest|Highest|Morn. |Eve. |Morn.|Eve. | +----------+—+------+-------+------+------+-----+-----+ |Wednesday | 1| 51 | 72 | 30.04| 29.95| W | | |Thursday | 2| 46 | 77.5 | 29.82| 29.67| W | | |Friday | 3| 56 | 74 | 29.60| 29.50| SW | W | |Saturday | 4| 58 | 71 | 29.48| 29.63| SW | W | |Sunday | 5| 53 | 66 | 29.91| 30.06| W | NE | |Monday | 6| 51 | 67.5 | 30.13| 30.18| NE | ENE | |Tuesday | 7| 42 | 70 | 30.18| 30.10| E | E | |Wednesday | 8| 40 | 68 | 30.04| 29.98| E | E | |Thursday | 9| 41 | 70.5 | 29.93| 29.80| EbN | SE | |Friday |10| 57 | 70 | 29.60| 29.48| SW | W | |Saturday |11| 47 | 66 | 29.48| 29.44| W | W | |Sunday |12| 50 | 62 | 29.55| 29.67| WSW| WNW | |Monday |13| 46 | 67 | 29.76| 29.73| W | WbS | |Tuesday |14| 51 | 70 | 29.53| 29.43| SW | SW | |Wednesday |15| 60 | 68 | 29.22| 29.25| SE | WbS | |Thursday |16| 51 | 67 | 29.30| 29.36| S | NE | |Friday |17| 56 | 68 | 29.60| 29.76| NE | NE | |Saturday |18| 54 | 60 | 29.87| 29.87| NE | NE | |Sunday |19| 48 | 65 | 29.89| 29.90| NE | NE | |Monday |20| 42.5| 59.5 | 29.90| 29.90| NE | NW | |Tuesday |21| 56 | 67.5 | 29.90| 29.95| NE | NE | |Wednesday |22| 51 | 59 | 30.03| 30.10| N | NW | |Thursday |23| 48 | 68 | 30.20| 30.20| NW | NW | |Friday |24| 52 | 63 | 30.14| 30.08| WNW | WbN | |Saturday |25| 49 | 60 | 30.00| 30.04| WNW | W | |Sunday |26| 44 | 58 | 30.08| 30.08| NW | N | |Monday |27| 42 | 67 | 30.12| 30.16| N | NW | |Tuesday |28| 47 | 64 | 30.16| 30.16| W | NW | |Wednesday |29| 50 | 63 | 30.24| 30.24| NNE | NW | |Thursday |30| 47 | 63 | 30.18| 30.07| W | W | |Friday |31| 52 | 63 | 30.12| 30.20| N | NE | +----------+—+------+-------+------+------+-----+-----+ TO OUR READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. The pages of this Journal are impartially open to all communications upon the subjects of Science, Scientific Literature, and the Arts: it is requested they may be forwarded to the Editor one month previous to the publication of each number. We shall be happy to receive papers from Provincial Scientific Societies, and to publish them either on the part of the Society, or of their respective authors. Papers deemed unfit for this publication, will be immediately returned to the source whence we received them, with our reasons for their return. * * * * * The letters signed B. and T. R. S. we have thought it prudent to suppress for the present.