Occasional Notes. 151 
with remarks on the state of the Weather, Clouds, and 
other Phenomena" by PATRIGK SANDEMAN, Observer 
(Greenock, 1857), very little, or indeed nothing has been 
done to examine and record the meteorology of this 
colony, a neglect the more to be regretted in that a 
knowledge of this kind, such as might be deduced 
by the vastly improved, if still very defective, 
modern methods employed in the science would 
be of inestimable value to those on whose indus- 
try we are so often told the colony rests — the sugar- 
planters. On most estates a record of the rainfall is 
kept, but most imperfectly ; and even where it is 
adequately done the results are very seldom published 
for general information. We therefore feel an unusual 
obligation to the Hon. Arthur Braud of Pin. Mon Repos 
who has supplied the following concise record of the 
rainfall on that estate during the twenty years com- 
mencing with January 1864. 
