1837.] 



Miscellaneous. 



619 



-Memorandum of the fall of the Barometer at Macao during the severe 

 Hurricane, on the 5th and 6th August, 1835. 

 [Communicated by Capt. Henning.] 



Day and hour. 



Barom. 



5th 1 00 p. m. 29.47 



2 30 



29.28 



5 00 



29.20 



7 20 



29.12 



9 00 



29.08 



10 20 



28.95 



10 45 



28.90 



11 05 



28.85 



H 30 



28.75 



11 55 



28.65 



15 



28.50 



Day and hour. Barom. 

 6th 30 a. m. 28.40 



45 



1 



20 



1 



25 



1 



45 



1 



55 



2 



00 



2 



25 



2 



45 



3 



10 



3 40 



28.30 

 28.05 

 28.08 

 28.20 

 28.30 

 28.37 

 28.56 

 28.68 

 28.75 

 28.83 



Day and hour. 

 6th 



10 

 54 

 15 



00 

 45 

 45 

 15 



45 

 30 

 25 

 00 



Barom. 

 28.90 

 28.97 

 29.02 

 29.08 

 29.12 

 29.20 

 29.21 

 29.23 

 29.27 

 29.30 

 29.34 



At 2 p. m. the barometer had risen to 29.42 and it continued to rise to 29.65, 

 at which point it usually stands during fine weather. The Hurricane commenc- 

 ed on the evening of the 5th after three or four days "very hot weather. Its 

 greatest violence was on the morning of the 6th about 2 o'clock. 



3. — The Geological Society of London. 

 On Friday Feb. 17, 1837, the anniversay of this Society was held in Somerset 

 House. The president, Mr. Lyell, communicated to the meeting, that the council 

 had awarded two Wollaston medals ; one to Captain Cautley, of the Bengal artil- 

 lery, and the other to Dr. Hugh Falconer, of the Bengal Medical Service for their 

 geological researches and discoveries in fossil zoology, in the Sewalik or Sub- 

 Himalayan range of mountains. On presenting the medals to Dr. Royle to transmit 

 to his friends in India, the president expressed his conviction, how gratifying it 

 must be to him to be the medium of communicating to Captain Cautley and Dr. 

 Falconer the high sense entertained of their services to science by the Geological 

 Society of London, who award these medals as a token of the sympathy they feel for 

 those so zealously labouring in a distant land for the promotion of a common cause. 

 The president further stated, that in his address he would treat more fully of the 

 extent of their labours, and bear testimony to the zeal and industry with which 

 these gentlemen had investigated the structure of the range extending along the 

 southern base of the Himalayan mountains, between the Ganges and Sutlege rivers, 

 as well as to the talent they had displayed in unravelling the anatomical peculiarities 

 of the extinct genus Sivatherium, and of new species of other genera; and concluded 

 by requesting, that in forwarding these medals, the first sent by the Geological 

 Society to India, that Captain Cautley and Dr. Falconer should be assured of the 

 unabated interest which the Society take in their researches, together with ardent 

 hopes for their future welfare and success. Dr. Royle, in reply, said, he did feel 

 high gratification at being made the medium of transmitting to India the distin- 

 guished honours conferred by the Geological Society on his friends, Captain 

 Cautley and Dr. Falconer; as he could himself bear testimony to the zeal which 

 animated those gentlemen in the prosecution of geological researches. Having had 

 opened to their investigation one of the most extensive deposits of fossil remains, 

 and being without books, without museum, or the aid of skilful naturalists, they 

 had, undeterred by difficulties, proceeded to the examination of extinct forms, by 

 making a museum of the skeletons of the animals existing in the forests, the rivers, 

 and the mountains, of northern India. By these means they had come to decisions 

 which had been approved of by anatomists, both of London and Paris. He express- 

 ed, also, his assurance, that the approbation of the Geological Society would not 

 only stimulate them to fresh exertions, but excite others to follow their example.— 

 Literary Gazette, Feb. 25. 



