1840.] The Meteorology of the Plains, ^^c. of K W. India. 343 



rnarkable, as it was originally found in the carboniferous series of Eastern 

 Australia by Dr. Robert Brown, v. De la Beche, Manual, p. 401. 



It would have been interesting to have concluded this cursory view 

 of the Geology of parts of India with a notice of the various mineral 

 resources of that country, which though little developed are very 

 abundant, and some of winch have long been known to, ahd formed 

 articles of commerce to both the ancient and modern civilized nations 

 of the earth, as the Author has endeavoured to prove, from p. 40 to 47, 

 and p. 95 to p. 104, in his Essay on the Antiquity of Huidoo Medi- 

 cine, London, 1838." 



XU^^The Meteorology of the Plains and Mountains of N, W. India, 



(From Royle's Illustrations of the Botany ^ S^^c. of the Himalayan 

 Mountains, Supplementary Part). 



Though the Meteorology of a country is frequently omitted in Works 

 treating of Natural History, there is no subject which is more interest- 

 ing or more closely connected with its several branches, especially when 

 it is desired to point out the connection between climate and the vege- 

 table and animal forms which it supports. This is still more important, 

 indeed essentially necessary, when we desire to make any Practical ap- 

 plication to the Arts of Culture of the results of our investigations into 

 the Natural Flistory of a country. 



India being so extended in territory and varied in surface, with length- 

 ened coasts, washed by a tropical ocean, and the summits of its moun- 

 tains, covered by eternal snows, necessarily presents every variety of 

 climate. As it is intended in the present Work to notice the vegetation 

 of its heated plains and valleys, and to compare this with that found on 

 the slope of its mountains, it is desirable, therefore, for the sake of 

 comparison, to notice the more striking characteristics of the climate of 

 different parts of India. This can only be done very briefly; but the 

 Author hopes to be able to return to the subject, and give the details of 

 liis observations made at Saharunpore, from the year 1826 to 1S30, with 

 the Barometer, and both the Dry and Wet Bulb Thermometer, with 

 observations on Radiation, Temperature of Wells, ^Quantity of Rain, 

 together with Horary Observations, with all the instruments, from 1 a, 

 M. to midnight, or for one day (the 15th) in each month for one year j 

 occasionally also at different elevations, and at the different seasons of 

 the year, in the Himalayan Mountains. 



