eight degrees. five to six degrees ; a difference not entirely depending somewhat lower than Kotagherry, situated in a hollow, with corresponding accommodation for one or more my own observation, the Committee will know what at Kotagherry, that the average difference of tem- MEMORANDUM ON THE CLIMATE OF DIMHUTTY. only give three degrees of difference. Dimhutty being some degree hypothetical, but being partly founded on there will be a further difference of one degree, or one (Signed) " R. BAIKIE, M. D. weight to give them. " Neilgherries" " Superintending Medical Officer, European Regiments on their first arrival. mometer, the subjoined observations are necessarily in 117 APPENDIX. the assumed rate of one degree per 380 feet, would and less exposed to the wind, it may be assumed that perature between Oatacamund and Dimhutty about " IT appears from the register of the thermometer kept "The Medical Officer at Kotagherry being in posses- in fifty, making the total overage of difference of tem- on the relative elevation of the two places, which at perature betwixt that place and Oatacamund is, from sion of no meteorological instruments, except a ther-