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B. Duncan Macpherson, Reports on Mountain and Marine Sanitaria within the Pre-
sidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British
Birmah. From January 1858 to January 1862, Madras. Selections from the
Becords of Government, No. 74, A. 18G2.
Also Dr. Balfour's work "Barometrical Sections of India,"1 Madras, 1853, contains,
p. 31 j some determinations of mean temperature based upon observations of minimum
and maximum, viz. probably Sunrise and an early hour of the afternoon. As I have
no further details as to the deduction of the "means" and as to which other hours
might have been combined, I give the monthly means only for Arkot, Belgau, and
Nagpur, for which I have no other data.
For the Himalaya no works on meteorology or j)hysical geography have been
published in particular; amongst the recent travels those of Cunninoham, Hooker, and
Strachey contain detailed and very careful meteorological observations; only it would
be desirable that these, as well as their predecessors, might have been able more
frequently to leave behind native observers for continued registers.
For climate and physical geography also Boyle's splendid work, "Illustrations of
the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Himalaya Mountains,"
London, 1839, contains many and various data.2
SCIENTIFIC JOUBNALS AND THE LOCAL BUBLICATIONS OF INDIA.
A great variety of meteorological notices were to be found in Indian publications;
the communication of observations with instruments are not very numerous, but
descriptive notes on climate and atmospheric phenomena are frequently very valuable,
particularly if personal experience allows one to judge of the details, which otherwise
might appear too short. Also for the resident such notices are often welcome analoga
for comparison with his own place; this may justify my having occasionally given
isolated facts as well as mean general considerations. They are arranged topographically.
1 For the hypsometrical materials of this work see "Results," Vol. II., p. 7.
2 The ten Reports made by us to Government during our travels, "On the Progress of the Magnetic Survey,"
contained the various data on climate and physical Geography, to which we had occasion to add some details before
Parliament in 1858, printed in the Papers "On Colonization and Settlement in India," 4th Report, p. 1—10.
B. Duncan Macpherson, Reports on Mountain and Marine Sanitaria within the Pre-
sidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British
Birmah. From January 1858 to January 1862, Madras. Selections from the
Becords of Government, No. 74, A. 18G2.
Also Dr. Balfour's work "Barometrical Sections of India,"1 Madras, 1853, contains,
p. 31 j some determinations of mean temperature based upon observations of minimum
and maximum, viz. probably Sunrise and an early hour of the afternoon. As I have
no further details as to the deduction of the "means" and as to which other hours
might have been combined, I give the monthly means only for Arkot, Belgau, and
Nagpur, for which I have no other data.
For the Himalaya no works on meteorology or j)hysical geography have been
published in particular; amongst the recent travels those of Cunninoham, Hooker, and
Strachey contain detailed and very careful meteorological observations; only it would
be desirable that these, as well as their predecessors, might have been able more
frequently to leave behind native observers for continued registers.
For climate and physical geography also Boyle's splendid work, "Illustrations of
the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Himalaya Mountains,"
London, 1839, contains many and various data.2
SCIENTIFIC JOUBNALS AND THE LOCAL BUBLICATIONS OF INDIA.
A great variety of meteorological notices were to be found in Indian publications;
the communication of observations with instruments are not very numerous, but
descriptive notes on climate and atmospheric phenomena are frequently very valuable,
particularly if personal experience allows one to judge of the details, which otherwise
might appear too short. Also for the resident such notices are often welcome analoga
for comparison with his own place; this may justify my having occasionally given
isolated facts as well as mean general considerations. They are arranged topographically.
1 For the hypsometrical materials of this work see "Results," Vol. II., p. 7.
2 The ten Reports made by us to Government during our travels, "On the Progress of the Magnetic Survey,"
contained the various data on climate and physical Geography, to which we had occasion to add some details before
Parliament in 1858, printed in the Papers "On Colonization and Settlement in India," 4th Report, p. 1—10.