44^ Scientific Intelligence* 
Annual Result^. 
Morning, 
Observations. 
Highest, 9th Jan. 
Lowest, 17th Oct. 
Wind. 
SW. 
NW. 
Barom. 
30.88 
28.58 
26th June, 
18th Jan. 
Wind. 
W. 
NW. 
Therm. 
68° 
1 
Highest, 8th Jan. 
SW. 
Evening. 
30.88 
25th June, 
NW. 
67 
Lowest, 17th Oct. 
NW. 
28.66 
18th Jan. 
NW. 
9 
Weather. 
Fair, 
. 
Days. 
219 
Wind. 
N. & NE. 
Times. 
19 
Rain or Snow, 
- 
147 
E. & SE. 
. 
97 

S. & SW. . 
- 
67 
366 
W. & NW. 
- 
183 
366 
Extreme Cold and Heat by Six’s Thermometer. 
Coldest, 18th Jan. Wind ,NW. 1° below Zero. 
Hottest, 26th June, NW. - 79° 
Mean Temperature for 1820, - 46°. 7247 
Result of Two Rain Guages. In. 
Centre of the Kinfauns Garden, About 20 feet above the level of the sea, 23.5 
Kinfauns Castle, 129 feet, - - - - - 18.5 
24. Vegetation on the Himalaya Mountains, — At the Rol 
or Shatul pass, over the Himalaya Mountains, the seeds of a 
species of campanula were gathered at the height of 16,800 
feet above the level of the sea, at a spot where the thermome- 
ter at noon in the middle of October stood at 27° of Fahr. 
Shrubs were found in a vegetating state at a still greater alti- 
tude. 
25. Mean Temperature of 1819 and 1820 at Chunar , — 
The following observations on the mean temperature of Chunar 
in Longitude 82° 54' east, and latitude 25° 9' north, were made 
four times a day in a large room, where there were no tatties. 
1819, 
Fahr. 
1819, 
Fahr. 
1820, 
Fahr. 
May, 
89° 
Sept. 
82°i 
Jan. 
58° 
June, 
88 
Oct. 
79f 
Feb. 
624 
July, 
90 
Nov. 
694 
March, 
774 
Aug. 
85| ' 
Dec. 
634 
April, 
84 
Mean Annual Temperature, 77°.4 
26. Mean Temperature of Melville Island. — The follow- 
ing is an abstract of the Hecla'^s Meteorological Journal for 
twelve kalendar months, during which period she was within 
