METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR 1856, MADE IN ST LOUIS.* BY DRS. E 
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Jan. | 29.621 | 30.062 | 29.082/ 0.980) 20.1 | 20.0 | 61.5 |_13.6 | 65.0 || 1.9 | 73] 1.03 
Feb. 29.944 1,057 || 26.6 | 26.9 | 55.0 |_15.0 | 70.0 || 2.0 | 77 | 3.64 
Mar. | 29.556 |. 29,909 | 29.246 | 0.663 | 36.2 | 36.1 | 65.6] 16.0 | 60.6 || 4.4 | 59 | 1.06 
April | 29.391 | 29.825 | 28.965 | 0.860 || 59.3 | 68.7 | 88.0| 34.5] 63.6 || 9.4 | 48| 6.85 
ay | 29.447] 29.736 29.089| 0.647 || 66.2 | 65.2 | 92.0] 46.0 | 47.0 | 82 | 69! 3.03. 
June | 29.459 | 29.710} 29.261| 0.449 || 78.5} 77.2 | 99.0} 61.0 | 48.0 2 | 69] 1.24 
July | 29.509 | 29.768} 29.180} 0.688} 83.6 | 82.1 | 102.5 |} 63.0 | 39.6 8 | 569) 4.61 
ug. | 29.519) 29.722] 29.309| 0.413 || 74.2 | 73.0 | 93.0 | 54.0] 89.0] 7.9 | 65 | 6.32 
Sept. | 29.577 | 29.757 | 29.391| 0.866) 66.3.| 65.8 | 92.0] 36.0 | 56.0 ¢ | 67 | 3.61 
ct. | 29,686 | 30.352) 29.139/ 1.213 || 66.3 | 60.0 | 85.0] 29.0 | 56.0 | 63 | 67 | 210° 
Nov. | 29.601 | 30.881) 29.008| 1.373 || 40.6 | 41.3 | 75.0} 19.0 | 66.0 || 3.7 | 69| 4.90 
Dec. | 29.613 | 30,296 | 28.662| 1.634 || 29.6 | 34.7 | 65.0] 4.0] 61.0] 1.4 84 | 4.29 
1856. | 29.529 30.381 | 28.662, 1.719 | 64.0} 68.4 | 102.5 |_16.0 |40R.| 6.1 | 62 | 42.08 |W. 
St. Louis, Missouri, is in Latitude 38 d. 37m. 28 8.3 Longitude 90d. 1 oR hedaes —(Ni t.) The olbvi levation of St. fit. Louls above the Guilt of. 
water mark of the Mississippi, 376 feet; at the City Dies 406.5 feet; an “ded Sig de: sn for the Meteorological Observa ea was ‘laced, 
half ro the year, at an elevation*of 76 feet, and, du 
r difference between the dry and the wet bulb of the Thermometer, in the open air. 
} Calculated from the previous column, 1 designating full s 
|| In numbers from 0 to 10, 0 designating entire clearness of sky, 10 mils cloudiness. 
ring the s 
ond half, at an elevation of 60 feet above the City Directrix, 
atur 
ay tey atmosphere with moisture 5 50, half saturation ete. vee 
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