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ing the genius of the people, their past history as regards literature, 
science, and the arts, and the protection of the principal sovereigns, as 
already evinced by those of Austria, Piedmont, and Tuscany. As to the 
immediate scientific results of the meeting, several very good papers were 
presented on geology, botany, and zoology, and some very interesting re- 
searches on magnetism and mechanics in the physical section. (Letter 
Srom a Correspondent, dated Florence, October 18. 1841.) 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
METEOROLOGY. 
Register of the Weather and Climate of Orkney. By Rev. 
Charles Clouston.* Ihave kept a register of the weather for the 
last twelve years; the latter half only in this parish, and the former 
in the manse of Stromness, where there is no great difference in the 
climate. As the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere, the 
direction and force of the wind, with the state of the weather, were 
noted twice a-day, at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m., during all that period; it 
would occupy too much space to insert the whole of that register 
here ; but the following tables, shewing the mean state of the baro- 
meter and thermometer for each month and year, may be interesting, 
as applicable to Orkney in general, and must be pretty accurate, 
being furmed from extensive data. 
T1BLe shewing the mean monthly and annual height of the barometer, from 1827 
till 1838 inclusive ; the line below shewing the mean of each month during 
that time, and the mean of the years. 
Feb. |March.| April. | May. | June. | July. | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | An. 
29.767 | 28.945 |29.222 |29.156 | 29.337 |29.398 |29.683 |29.503 |29.269 |29.305 |29.010 |29.322 
295 |29.290 | 29.141 |29.567 |29.447 |29.272 |29.205 |29.348 |29.437 |29.398 |29.322 |29.219 |29.328 
5 |29.682 |29.893 |9. 29.993 |29.974 |29,532 |29.849 |29.640 |29.859 |29.934 |30.112 |29.817 
29.708 | 29.780 |29. 29.894 |29.843 |29.820 |29.828 |29.604 |30.072 |29.614 |29.694 |29.798 
29,715 |29.752 |2 30.038 |29.930 |29.946 |29.916 |29.883 |29.602 |29.694 |29.604 |29,822 
3 29.920 30.010 |29.938 |30.067 |29.860 |29.963 |29.815 |29.638 |29.596 |29.868 
29,298 |29.910 |29.860 |-9.912 | 29.634 |29.870 |29.767 |29.799 |29.601 |29.508 |29.233 |29.712 
29.478 |29.804 |30.096 |29.235 |29.760 |29.924 |28.736 |29.924 |29.712 129.744 |29.983 | 29.697 
29,278 | 29.664 |29.899 |29.761 |29.998 |29.851 |29.743 |29.524 |29.626 |29.783 |30.027 }29.742 
-9.538 |29.654 |29.682 |29.490 |30.298 |29.674 |-9.672 |29.769 |29.690 |29.520 |29.321 |29.304 | 29.634 
29.637 |29.530 |29.880 |29.776 |29.838 |29.853 |29.815 |29.835 |29.761 |29.633 |29.423 |29 703 |29.728 
29.446 |29.293 |29.284 129.171 |-9.294 |29.188 |29.189 |29.140 |29.272 |29.282 |29.004 |29.124 |29.223 
.|29.939 |29.551 |29.618 |29.668 |29.789 |29.700 |29.690 |29.622 |29.666 |29.615 |29.524 |29.550 |29.6 4 
* From this clergyman’s Statistical Account of the parish of Sandwick, 
in Statistical Account of Scotland. 
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