438 Scientific Intelligence. 
30m. A. M., _ : and 64 o’clock, p.m. It was suspended in an open 
need in the s 
The highest eit of the thermometer was 90° in the month of June, 
and the lowest 54° on the mornings of the 10th and 11th of January. 
On 3 _ of August it rose to 113°, placed upon a tin water-gauge 
in the 
It will le seen that the greatest fall of rain in any one month, was in 
October; which was 18-4 inches. The greatest amount noticed in any 
one day, was on the 17th of the same month; which was 2°39 inches. 
here was a squall with thunder on the 19th of April, in which a na- 
tive schooner with six foreigners and one islander were lost, and an- 
other considerable blow from the N.W. on the 26th of the same month. 
There was also a light squall on the Ist day of May. 
On the 10th of October, there wasa gale from the N.W. at night, and 
on the next evening there was vivid lightning skirting the horizon from 
north to we: 
Nov. arth, “wind strong from westward. Also, strong from N.W. 
on Feb. 18th — 19th, and on the three ot days of March; on which 
latter days the s rf rolled heavily into ou 
By the “Friend, ” printed at Honoluy learn, that the American 
Whaleship Luminary was struck by a severe gale from W.N.W.., in 
N. lat. 33°, long. 177° 20’ W., on the sialiua of March 27th, in which 
a heavy sea was shipped that took off six men from the deck, and ia 
tally wounded another. The ship was so materially injured as to re 
der it necessary to put back to Honolulu for repairs. This disaster ee 
curred between 1 and 2 Pp: m., and on the morning of the next day the 
gale reached this place. 
The northeast trades have prevailed 219 days out of the 365. These 
winds purify the air, and render a summer residence, especially in the 
more sultry parts of the islands, much more agreeable and healthy 
than it would otherwise be. 
Fair days 170. The weather has been more pleasant, for this place, 
e the year together, and less rain has fallen, than is usu 
= the sent cage fair, cloudy, showers and rain, there is ne- 
ssarily so or from imperfect estimates. inet: the aim has been 
‘a give the pieonpitliny state of the weather each 
may here remark that the Sandwich Islands afiord every variety of 
weather according to the position of the place, and its proximity t0 
mountains ; the northern and eastern sides being usually rainy and com- 
paratively cool, while the southern and western sides are warm an ry- 
All degrees of temperature may here be found, from the ice-clad 
tops of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, to the scorching sun of Honolulu. 
The islands are usually considered healthy, yet almost the whole pop- 
ulation of the group were sree by a kind of influenza in April, 1 
that continued through the month. Considerable numbers of the na- 
tives a from this seit ‘ied in many other cases other diseases 
appeared to be aggravated, and nae a the result. 
Waioli, dendwrion eit April 20 20t 
2. On the Amount of Rain pel sea at St. Louis for the years 
1837 to 1846 inclusive; by Dr. G. ENneceimann, (communicated. 5 gl 
Mr. Lyell in his interesting essay on the delta of the Mississipp!, 10 in the 
