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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE, 



on March 26th ; yearly range, 1.636 inches. The highest monthly mean was- 

 29.200 inches in January; the lowest was 28.992 inches in June. The barometer 

 observations are corrected for temperature and instrumental error. 



• Relative Humidity. — The average atmospheric humidity for the year was 

 68.23 ; at 7 A. M. 79.65 ; at 2 P. M. 50.95 ; at 9 P. M. 75.31. The dampest 

 month was December, with mean humidity 76.70; the driest month was Septem- 

 ber, mean humidity 59.20. There were fourteen fogs during the year. The 

 lowest humidity for any single observation was 7 per cent, on September 12th. 

 This extreme dryness of the air existed during the continuance of the withering 

 simoon of that date 



January . 

 February . 

 March . . 

 April . , . 

 May , . , 

 June . . . 

 July . . . 

 August . . 

 September 

 October . . 

 November 

 December . 



Means . 



u 



51.72 



45-59 

 40.22 



51-77 

 63-44 

 38-99 

 38.92 



3237 

 35-67 

 41-51 

 43-" 

 61.61 



45-41 



COMPARISON WITH PRECEDING YEARS. 



