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The mean monthly temperature ranges between 78 c and 82 c 
Falir. The highest and lowest temperature in the shade during 
the last ten years being 93 ° and 65 ° respectively. 
The Barometrical readings corrected aud reduced to 32 ° b ahr. 
graduate between 39" and 30". 
No distinct dry or wet seasons exist, and a week of dry or wet 
weather cannot be depended on. 
As might be expected, it sometimes rains very heavily, as much 
as 6.25 inches falling in 24 hours, and on 27th August, 1878, 
5.20 inches fell in about 3^ hours. 
In 1878, it reached 103.16 inches, while in 1877 it was only 
58.37 inches, of which 11.47 inches fell in August alone. 
The mean annual rainfall for the last 10 years is 91.66 inches. 
During these hear / rains, annuals and all tender plants that 
are in the open ground are completely spoiled, such as Zinnias, 
Balsams, Verbenas, &c., which during the drier weather serve 
in no small measure to ornament our grounds. 
' As no hills of more than 500 feet exist on the Island, it is 
evident that the task of raising seeds of plants and trees indi- 
genous in the Temperate Zone cannot be repaid by the result, and 
shows the uselessness of sending seeds of Norway Spruce, Larch 
and Pinaster, &c. here, as some of our well-meaning correspond- 
cuts have done. 
Many plants from the hills of the Peninsula above 5,000 feet 
refuse to live here and the majority become sickly and gradually 
die, as for instance Nepenthes sanguined and Matonia pectmata, 
which are found in Perak below 4,500 feet. 
H. J. MURTON, 
Superintendent. 
