JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 693 
On motion, the Secretary was requested to have an ab- 
stract presented to the daily papers for publication, and the 
accompanying table was ordered to be published in the 
Transactions. 
Dr. Engelmann found the mean gsm sree ne 534 inches, 
very nearly the average elevation of St. Lou The remes were 
greater than usual—the in gwen elevation Gunaaty 22d) 30. 304, and the 
greatest depression res h 28th) 28. on inches, showing a range of 1.788 
inches, ours generally, it does not amount to more than 1 or 1} inches. 
T mometrical cileesiviithont ited most interesting for the public, 
he average mean, 55°.4 Fahrenheit ture during the dif- 
ferent months was mostly ns es rota 2 ne; February, M N 
ember were rather mer, April cooler, <r these months ordina- 
rily are he most cenakaaaa feature i thermometrical condition 
f the year was the y low tempe e , with 25° lower 
years. The mean temperature of January was only i 
found lower, oe, in rt ps: 20°, i awe ete nd in 1857, 19° oe and tha 
ber, ever before observed by him, occurred in 1838 and in 1845—in both 
years amounting to 27°.4. pon ng day in the month and year was 
December 7th, with 3°.5 below 
We trac he ese great atmo comand waves, wma oameesie by a sudden rise 
of bapenetes and fall of thermometer, from the Rocky Mountains to the 
Atlantic coast, and here on the Mississippi we are pretty ravens Hope spre 
i d 
ion, occ 
in the mornin oy of Peocae: bth, with 39° below zero. At New — 
Easte’ 
was the coldest day here since January 18, 1857, when the temperature 
- to 12°.5 below zero in ; in ‘the Pye intervening winters the thermometer 
ell to veo and to 
at his Bal irs tables dregs another gobo. ow 
each 
3°.6, was under onl 
- En gelmann urged that obeervations oes in the heart of a large 
“ give a very incomplete insight into the nneeron of be =. ‘hea 
coun ‘ 
Pie grade smar yrange J i t e ee os that of the soil be over- 
tated that he oe ier to 
to sh 
observ 
have the means, not to fill this great Sot but to s ites. iffer- 
New Mexico, in the lowlands of Chagres, a and oe ‘7 Srountains 0 
zuela—here, in our neighborhood, in the valley of Rock Spring creek, not 
