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Mean pressure of the year, corrected and reduced to 
32° Fahrenheit, - - 29.920 
Mean temperature of the year, hog che mean ‘of 
the maxima and minima taken by wa tead ther- 
mometers, - 40.43 
Maximum bette of iis taronntier 
during the year, = - 30.550, (24th December, 9 P. M.) 
Minimum, - - 29.000, (14th December, 9 A. M.) 
Range of barometer, = - ~ 1.550 
Warmest day, (9th July,) | 90° (mean of the 24 a: 79.75.) 
Coldest day, (2d February,) — 19 
Range of thermometer, 109 
Humber of days of westerly winds, - - - 189,24 
- easterly - . - 46.25 
& “ north “ ‘ - - 65.85 
‘ce ‘ce south sc - ~ ~ 55.66 
Number of days observed, - - 357.00 
N. B. The instruments used are all of the first description. The 
barometer, a standard mountain, by Newman. The register ther- 
mometers by the same, and compared with a standard by Adie & 
Son, Edinburgh. The rain gage by Newman, after the one used 
by the Royal Society, London. Every precaution is used in the 
placing of the instruments, which a residence in a city will admit of. 
7. Oil of the Tutui or Candle Nut Tree-—From Mr. French of Hon- 
olulu, through the Rev. Joan Dieit, Seaman’s Chaplain, we received in 
August 1835, a bottle of the oil named above. Mr. French at that time had 
a mill and press, employed several native hands, and manufactured from 
one hundred to one hundred and fifty barrels annually. Mr. Diell remarks 
that “it is found when dried to answer an excellent purpose for paint oil, 
and that it might be manufactured to any extent, as the trees are found in 
abundance upon all the islands. The greatest difficulty appears to be in 
drying it t properly—for if it is not boiled very carefully, and to just such 
whether boiled upon litharge, as is common with flax seed oil. 
8. Aerolites.—An account has been received from Brazil, of the ap- 
pearance of a meteor of extraordinary brightness, and as large as the bal- 
loons used by aéronauts. It was seen wae more than sixty leagues in the 
Vou. XXXIV.—No. 1. ; 
