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XLVIII. Note 071 the Mean Temperature of Sevastopol, as 

 deduced from the Observations of M. Coumani. By jPro- 

 fessor M. A. Kupffer, of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 

 of St. Petersburg*. 



CEVASTOPOL, where the following observations were 

 ^ made, stands on the westei'n shore of the Peninsula of the 

 Crimea, and is situated in north latitude ^^° SS'i, and in 

 longitude 33° 32' east of Greenwich. 



The months are reckoned according to the Julian Calendar, 

 or Old Style, and the observations were made twice a day, at 

 10'' A.M. and 10'' p.m., and at the hours of maximum and 

 minimum. 



Table I. — Mean State of the Octogesimal or Reaumur's Ther- 

 mometer at Sevastopol, in the Years 1827 — 1830. 



Reaumur. Fabr. 



Mean Temp, of 1827— 1830, at 10" A.M. and 10" p.M +9°'4 SS^-IS 



Mean Temp, at the hours of Max. and Min +9 '35 53 "04 



Table II. — Mean Temperature of a Spring at Sevastopol, in 

 the Years 1827, 1828, and 1829. 



January .. 

 February. 

 March . . 

 April . . . 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 

 October. . . . 

 November. . 

 December. . 



\mi. 



+ 11-2 

 11-5 

 11-4 

 110 

 101 



+ 9-0 



1828. 



+ 11-6 

 11-9 

 11-3 

 10-2 

 9-8 



+ 8'2 



1829. 



+ 13'8 

 12-4 

 12-4 

 10-6 

 81 



+ 7'8 



Mean for 1827 +9° "9 



Mean for 1828 10-2 



Mean for 1829 10 '6 



Mean for three years 10'23 Reaumur. 



* Communicated by the Author. 

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