1836.] 



Abstract of Meteorological Tables. 



821 



sumed as the barometric zero at the level of the sea, can possibly b e 

 trusted : hence the advantage of maintaining a constant register at 

 one or several fixed spots ; nay, it may be almost regarded as a public 

 desideratum, where, as in India, the Government has so much to learn 

 of the physical geography of its vast territories. 



Want of space has prevented my including in the plate the thermo- 

 metric columns for 1835 ; but the temperature does not require such 

 minute discussion as the pressure, for obvious reasons. The hygro- 

 metrical phenomena also are rather unsuitable to graphic illustration. 

 The monthly averages to which we must now pass will ; it is hoped, be 

 sufficiently comprehensive in these departments to cause no regret at 

 the unavoidable suppression of the daily registers. 



Beginning, then, with the Bombay and Socotra series we have the 

 following 



Abstract of Bombay Observations for part of 1834, by Mr. Henderson: 

 for 1835, by Mr. S. Frazkr. 





Barometei 



uncorrected 





Thermometer. 







10 A. M. 



Noon. 



3 P. M. 



10 A. M. 



Noon. 



3 P. M. 



1834. 















January, . 



30.05 



30.03 



29.98 



76.5 



77-5 



79.2 



February, . 



30.03 



30.00 



29.95 



77 2 



78.7 



80.0 



March, .. 



30.01 



29.97 



29.93 



79.5 



85.5 



32.0 



] 



3arometer re 



duced to 32° 









1835. 













January, . 



29.974 



29.939 



29.889 



Sunday Obs. carent 





February, . 



.898 



.907 



.8£3 



.. ditto. 





March, .. 



.675 



.837 



.788 ' 



from 12th to 16th carent 





April 



.890 



.851 



.790 



16 to 20 ditto. 





May 



.779 



.752 



,736 



2, 3, 8 to 10 ditto. 





June 



.662 



.639 



.612 







July, .... 



.610 



.605 



.579 







August, .. 



.668 



.663 



.630 







September 



.730 



.727 



.626 







October,. . 

 November, 



.823 

 .935 



.786 

 .941 



.729 

 .900 



J 30th Oct. to 3rd No 



V. carent 



December, 



.980 



.957 



.902 



from the 25th carent. 





Means, .. 



29.824 



29.800 



29.753 





Mr. Noton, fancying I was only in want of the barometrical se- 

 ries, has omitted to send that of the thermometer or of the weather 

 in general. His own observations for many years on the climate of 

 Bombay are, however, published, and will supply the deficiency when 

 we come to take a general review. 



Abstract of Observations taken on the coast of Socotra, on board the 

 H. C. 8. Palinurus, H. B. Haines, Commander, in 1834. 



Month. 



Barometer at 32°. 



Thermometer. 





8 A.M. 



Noon. 



8 P.M. 



8 A.M. 



Noon. 



8 P.M. 



January, . 



29.429 



29.416 



29.414 



76.7 



80.7 



79.4 



February,. 



.405 



.396 



.395 



77.2 



80.5 



76.5 



March, .. 



.393 



.377 



.370 



75.5 



81.0 



80.9 



June, .... 



.093 



.087 



.077 



86.9 



91.5 



90.0 



July, 



.089 



.082 



.082 



84.0 



87.0 



86. 2 



Wind. 



Weather. 



ENE. cloudy, 7 days rain. 



ENE. hazy and squalls. 



NE. calms — clear. 



SW. hard gales. 



SW. hard gales. 

 The last two months' journal contains also the readings at 4 a. m. sunrise, 3 P. M. 

 and sunset ; but necessarily on board a ship in heavy weather, the diurnal oscillations 

 cannot fairly be estimated. 



