374 Celestial Phemmenafrom Oct. 1. 1830 to Jan. 1. 1831. 



On the 15th of October there will be an Occupation of Vemin In' the 

 Moon : 



D. H. / // 



Immersion, Oct. 15. 16 31 17 at 61" 



Emersion, 17 28 25 at 250 



The Moon will be scarcely risen at the time of immersion. 



On the 30th of November, there will be an Occultation of Aldebaran by 

 tiie Moon : 



D- H. / ,1 



Immersion, 30. 15 9 23 at 161° 



Emersion, 16 2 at 276 



The angle denotes the point of the Sfoon's limb where the phenomenon 

 will take place, reckoning from the vertex of the limb towards the right hand 

 round the circumference, as seen with a telescope which inverts. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Thunder-Storm at Inchlce'ith. — Mr John Bonnyman, light- 

 keeper at Inchkeith, in his report to Mr Stevenson, engineer, 

 writes as follows: — " On the afternoon of 30th July 1830, we 

 had a storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied with thick 

 fog and rain, from 4 p. m. till past 11. Although it has done 

 no harm, I was a good deal alarmed, as there was rain-water in 

 the large circular tray in the inside of the roof of the light-room, 

 and the lightning frequently hissed in it like as ij" there had been 

 fiot iron put among water. The flashes were quick in succes- 

 sion ; sometimes only one minute, and rarely more than three 

 minutes, betwixt them." 



2. On Sounds on the Peak of Teneriffe. — " There is an- 

 other observation," says Mr AlHson, in his Narrative of an Ex- 

 pedition to the Summit of the Peak of Teneriffe, on the 23d 

 and 24th of February 1829, " which I made, that may be 

 worth mentioning. Soon after the sun went down, the wind 

 became much louder, and had an acuter sound, although the 

 force was very considerably less than in the day. It has been 

 observed from the earliest antiquity, that the air becomes more 

 sonorous at night than in the day ; but I am not aware that 



