1831 .] 
Notice of the Van Diemen's Land Tiger, 
175 
The thermometrical dryness is 9,72; while in Calcutta, in 1829, the dryness was 
only 5,42, and the evaporation 125 inches. At Seringapatam, styled by Foggo “one 
of the driest of the habitable regions of the globe,” the thermometrical dryness, in 
1816, was 14. 
Table , exhibiting the monthly mean temperature , taken at certain fixed hours, and the 
extremes of heat and cold, for one year , from October , 1828, to September, 1829. 
Months. 
Mean temp- 
erature at 9 
h.13 m.A.M. 
Mean temp. 
at8h. 27m. 
P. M. 
Mean temp, 
by observa- 
tions at sun- 
rise at 3. 
P. M. 
Extreme 
heat. 
Extreme 
cold. 
October, 1828, .... 
78,94 
78,38 
79,15 
95,5 
64,5 
November, 
68,37 
68,66 
68,19 
86 
49,5 
December, 
60,69 
60,38 
60,91 
77,5 
44,5 
January, 1829, .... 
59,67 
57,75 
58,76 
76,5 
38,5 
February, 
66,51 
62,32 
63,37 
82,5 
41,5 
March, 
79,33 
75,54 
76,67 
98,5 
51,5 
April, 
91,65 
87,51 
88,58 
110 
65,5 
May, 
96,50 
92,91 
95,41 
115,5 
75,5 
June, 
94,32 
91,21 
94,51 
116 
78 
J| ily, 
83,74 
83,28 
83,46 
93,5 
77,5 
August, 
83,59 
82,88 
83,21 
92,5 
77,5 
September, 
86,68 
85,94 
84,87 
96,5 
73,5 
Mean and Results, .. 
79,16 
77,23 
78,09 
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38,5 
Table of the monthly fall of rain at Fattchpur, from 1 st October , 1826, to the 30th 
September , 1830, being a period of four complete years, in inches and decimals. 
Oci. 
Nov. 
Oec. 
Jan. 
Feb 
March. 
Apl. 
May 
June. 
July. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Total. 
1826-7 
,39 
,98 
,45 
,130 
,00 
3,22 
,63 
,69 
,327 
18,04 
12,27 
1,19 
42,00 
1827-8 
,15 
1,69 
,45 
,06 
,00 
,04 
,42 
1,19 
9,07 
14,00 
4,09 
34,12 
1828-9 
,92 
,00 
,00 
,57 
,61 
,00 
,00 
,25 
5,15 
11,05 
7,53 
,24 
26,35 
1829-30 
,07 
,03 
,00 
,00 
,00 
,04 
,10 
,15 
2,95 
13,31 
8,16 
16,44 
41,28 
Average 
3,81 
,67 
,22 
,70 
,16 
,18 
,19 
,38 
3,85 
12,87 
10,49 
5,49 
35,94 
VII . — Notice of the Van Diemen's Land Tiger. By J. Grant, Esq. 
[Read before the Physical Class Asiatic Society.] 
Through the kindness of my friend Dr. Henderson, I have the pleasure to send 
for the inspection of the Asiatic Society, the stuffed skin of an animal from 
Van Diemen’s Land. It is called by the settlers the Van Diemen’s Land Tiger, and 
proves very destructive to sheep. Whether it be synonimous with the creature called 
the Van Diemen’s Land Hyena or not, I will not take it upon me to say ; but the 
members of the Society will judge for themselves, as far as the following quota- 
tion from the last Hobart Town Almanack may enable them to do so : “ Considerable 
numbers o the native Hyena prowl from the mountains near this, (a grazing farm 
belonging to a gentleman in Hobart Town,) in quest of prey among the flocks, at 
night. The shepherd is therefore obliged, during the lambing season, either to watch 
