296 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
inches in diameter. At Dum Dum, the artillery cantonment in Bengal, 
on the 8th of April, 1838, two hailstones were e picked up which meas- 
ured sixteen inches in sitemefercnt ce and more than five inches in 
diameter. At Jaulna, on the 14th of January, 1849, the hailstones 
were as large as billiard-balls. On the 5th - woomeey ain at 
1850, some hailstones were as large as cocoa- nuts ; the writer say 
sd | Hes within the mark when I say they were as large as cocoa-nuts.” 
8. Meteorology of St. Bernard and Geneva.—Prof. E. PLaANTAMOUR, 
in the Bibliothéque ‘Universelle, Nov., 1851, xviii, 177, has published 
an interesting paper on the climate of St. Bernard and Geneva, for the 
year 1850. The following table, made up from the several tables in 
the paper, present some of the results. 
‘Temperature. Barometer. Rain & Snow. fIntens. of Nek | Clearness of sky. 
—~— Sn ne 
Gs SUB. St BL] G. | SLB.) G. (St.B./ G. St. B/G. SB. 
Cent. Ss m. | mm. | m NE: SWINE: Sw] mean /mean.jdays clear. 
Jan. |— 2°52°-11-00 72618 558 46] 41-5) 146°611-05:1/2-20:1] 0°89) 0°55 9 
Feb. |+ 4°00 |- 5°58|731-20'565:35| 235) 131-8050 |25-29 | 0-53/ 0-42] 8 | 14 
Mar, |+ 2-40 |— 8-29 ae 93|/562'34) 47; 38°51214 [7:36 | 0°33] 0-33] 16 | 17 
Apr. |+ 8°09 — 3°70}722-07/559°88]128'8) 133-3]1-:25 |230 | 0-76] o-78} 1 | 0 
May |+10°88 - 1:56]723-72/561-77|112°9| 124-212-00 |0-83 | 0-61] O72] 2| 5 
ne {+16 8]727-38'567°80] 66°4 2°55 11:55 | 0°58) 0°63} 4) 5 
July [+1768 + 5°42/727-11/567-76| 36:0 36-2/1-11 [611 | 044/054] 7| 7 
Aug.|+16°94 | 5-03]727-621568:19] 85-7 108°7}0-70 |146 | 051/068) 8 | 8 
Sept/+12°66 + 031]728-62/567-20] 78:1| 35-12-62 0°36| 0-55) 16} 8 
Oct. 1+ 7 75]723°13/559°82] 60-4| 108-5]1-24 [3-03 . | 0°67| 0-62] 6 | 10 
Nov./+ 5°97 - ond ati 563-72] 760; 141-0/0°58 (275 | 0-58| 0°54{ 9 | 10 
Dec. |- 1°38 - 6 51/564°37] 23-7] 48-911-34 (3-04 | 0-87} 0:33] 1 | 19 
|Year|+ 840 a oad be 11/563°86]737°7|1119-5]1:28 |2°55 | 0°60 ee 
The ciate temperature of Geneva for 1850 was about $a 
less than for the ten years 1841-1850; and that of St. eps of 
a degree less, The greatest cold at Geneva was on the 11th of Janu 
ary, when it was —13° 20 
The column of barometric claves seu for St. Bernard, give the 
mean pressure at noon. The mean pressure at 6 a. M. for the year! 
0°35™™- less than at an at 6 Pp. M. 0-02mn- sgronier than at noon; at 
8 v. um. 0-19™™- greater; at 9 p.m. 0-25mm- ter. 
The rain and snow was of less amount — usual, and especially 50 
at St. Bernard. The relative quantity for the seasons at Geneva was 
2 p.c. in winter, 33 p.c. in spring, 26 p summer, 29 p. ¢ 12 
autumn; and at St. Ber > 29 p.c. in winter c. In spring, 18 
p. c. in su r, 26 p.c. in autumn. ‘Thunder was heard 22 days at 
July and August, and three in Septem 
The northeast winds were unusually Sie during 1850, especialy 
at St. Bernard. In February, August and No vember, eerie 
val 
reverse was true. In the column of winds above, the ratio “of N: E, to 
S. W. winds is given. 
he sky was rather €learer than usual at Geneva in autumn, and 
somewhat less so in summer. At St. Bernard, the winter was ¢ 
than usual, and the other seasons scarcely varied from the mean. 
