3S6 Scientific Intelligence, 
Inches. Temperature. 
December 24. 8^ 28.20 45° 
11 27.96 
December 25. 5 a. m. 27.83 
which was probably the minimum. Tn March 1783 it stood at 
27.88 during the Calabrian earthquakes. The barometer of the 
Royal Society’s apartments in Somerset House, at one foot above 
low-water of spring-tides in the Thames, stood at 28.18 at 8 
o’clock in the evening of the 25th December. — See the Phil, 
Trans. 1822, Part I. p. 113. 
9. Observations on the Barometer and Thermometer at Berlin^ 
9^Bth December 1821. 
The Barometer was placed about 40 feet above the river. 
Barom. 
Therm. 
Temp, of the 
In. Lines. 
aqached. ' 
Air. 
0^30»" 
A. M. 
27.1,08 
12°.5 
2°.2 
9 25 
A. M. 
26.9,39 
11 .5 
5,9 
I 0 
P. M. 
26.8.74 
12 .5 
2 45 
P. M. 
26.8.94 
12,5 
6,8 
10 0 
P. M. 
26.10.6 
13 
6 ,3 
1 10 
A. M. 
27. 0.0 
13 
4.5 
Inches. 
The mean height of the barometer at Berlin is 28 0 3 
The scale of the barometer is divided into inches and 12th 
parts ancient French measure. The scale of the thermometer 
is Reaumur’s . — Communicated by Professor Tralles of Berlin. 
10. Singular contrast between the Winter of 1821—2 in the 
North of Europe and South America . — No fact in meteoro- 
logy is more remarkable than the mildness of last winter in the 
North of Europe and Asia, and its severity in South America. 
The winter at St Petersburg, which is always very severe 
during four successive months, and continues two months more, 
so as to last six months, lasted only about a month and a few 
days. The first snow fell at Christmas, and it disappeared ge- 
nerally on the 1st day of February. Although the weather in 
the interior of Russia was colder and more constant than at St 
Petersburg, yet there was no snow, and the frost did not com- 
mence till the middle of January. On the 2d March the Dwina 
was free of ice at Riga. The winter in Siberia was equally 
mild., Warm winds prevailed both at Tobolsk and also farther 
to the north-east. Everywhere there was no sqow. At Bere- 
