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the fifth between the pectorals and dorsal ; together with an 

 oscillated spot round the base of the dorsal. 



The nostrils are large and situated near the eyes, each 

 having two apertures. The dorsal is situated far back, and 

 contains fifteen divided rays, and two soft undivided rays at 

 the commencement of the fin, shorter than the rest. The 

 pectorals contain each about eighteen soft branching rays ; 

 the anal contains fourteen rays, the caudal contains about 

 nine large rays, thus : 



D. 17: P. 18: A. 14: C. 9. 



Habitat. — Chusan and Ningpo. 



The bite of Tetrodon oscellatus is said by some authors to 

 be poisonous, the same thing is remarked of other species of 

 this genus ; but we conceive the idea to have no foundation. 



Reduction of Meteorological Observations made at Kulsea on the Doab 

 Canal, during the years 1837-38-39-40-41. By Lieut. R. Baird 

 Smith, Bengal Engineers. 



These observations which consist of Registers of the Thermometer 

 at sun-rise, of the Pluviometer, of the direction of the wind, and the 

 state of the weather, were commenced by Mr, Sub- Conductor John 

 Pigott, under instructions from Capt, P. T. Cautley, on the 1st of 

 May 1837. They were carried on at Kulsea, one of the stations on 

 the Doab Canal, about fourteen miles to the northward of Saharan- 

 pore, and having an elevation above the level of the sea of probably 

 1,100 feet. 



The value of the Thermometric observations has, I regret to find, 

 been seriously deteriorated by certain circumstances to which more 

 specific allusion will immediately be made, and as means do not now 

 exist of ascertaining the exact influence of these, I have felt consider- 

 able hesitation in placing the observations on record at all. It is 

 farther to be regretted, that they were discontinued m February 1839; 

 for although they exhibit the Temperature but at one period of the day, 

 their continuance for a space of time that would now have exceeded 

 five years, would have made them of considerable interest and use. 



