New South Wales, 
465 
who are concerned in the physical history of the southern hemis¬ 
phere, and on their account this notice will be followed by a brief 
recapitulation of such of the fossil plants and animals as have 
been satisfactorily determined. 
W. B. C. 
Art. XXXVIII. Abstract from a Meteorological Journal kept 
at Port Stephens, New South Wales, during the years 1843, 
4, 5,6, and 1847. By Captain Philip P. King., R.N., 
F.R .S., &c. 
The following meteorological observations were made at Port 
Stephens, New South Wales, in latitude 32° 40' 3' S., and longi¬ 
tude 152° 2' T E. The situation being at the head of the Port, 
about eleven miles from the entrance, but close to the beach, and 
elevated above the high-water mark 46 feet. The instruments, of 
which a description is subjoined, were registered with much care 
every day, with very few omissions, at the hour of nine o’clock 
in the forenoon, of noon, and of three o’clock in the afternoon. 
The thermometer, a standard, was suspended about six feet 
from the ground in a tin cylinder, pierced with holes to admit 
a free current of air, whilst the bulb was effectually sheltered 
from the sun’s rays and the surrounding radiation. The bulb of 
the wet thermometer, which was fixed close to the standard, was 
kept moist by a simple process, so that any remarkable difference 
was readily detected. 
The self-registering thermometers were also suspended close to 
the standard thermometer. 
The barometer was made by Mr. Troughton, and I have 
reason to believe it to be a very good instrument. The bulb of 
its attached thermometer, being bent inwards so as to be in con¬ 
tact with the tube, indicated the temperature of the column; and 
the zero of the scale was adjusted as necessary according to the 
indications of an ivory float. The diameter of the tube being 
0-282 inch, the correction for capillarity is +-016 inch. By a 
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