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ters at Springfield, Illinois, from Dr. Meade; and Key- West, Flo- 

 rida, from Lieut. Alvord, U. S. A.; a communication from Wil- 

 liam C. Redfield of New-York, one of our corresponding members 

 containing the results of his daily meterological observations for 

 the years 1835 and 1836; an abstract of meterological observa- 

 tions made in the city of Albany during the year 1836 by M. 

 H. Webster; meteorological register of Mr. McCord of Mon- 

 treal; a statement of the annual means and extremes of the ba- 

 rometer and thermometer at Cape Diamond, Quebec, by J. Watts, 

 superintendant of telegraphs in Canada, for several years; and a 

 similar statement of the annual means and extremes of the barome- 

 ter and thermometer at Amsterdam, in Holland, from G. A. Van- 

 dervoort of that city. 



With regard to the horary observations on the 21st of Decem- 

 ber, the committee regret that those made at Cincinnati, Middle- 

 town, Baltimore and Burlington, have not yet been received.— 

 And this is the more unfortunate, as the period embraced in it was 

 characterized by the termination of a very extensive inland storm, 

 and would furnish more precise data with regard to its movement 

 than have hitherto been collected. Of this storm, the following 

 additional particulars derived from the newspapers are deemed 

 worthy of being here brought together: 



At New-Orleans, at 2 P. M. of the 20th Dec, a southerly storm, 

 accompanied by a heavy shower of rain. In the evening a strong 

 gale blew from the north. At Natchez, the barometer had been 

 falling from the the 18th, on which morning it was 30.10, until the 

 morning of the 20th, when it stood at 29.64; at 4 P. M. the ther- 

 mometer was falling and the barometer rising; in the morning 

 there had been showers, thunder and rain; in the afternoon it was 

 windy and clear; the wind changed from S. in the morning, to S. 

 W., W. and N. W. in the afternoon. — Mr. Tooley's met. reg. 



At Cincinnati on the 20th between 11 and 12 A. M. it began 

 to rain, with a strong wind blowing from S. E. The thermome- 

 ter rose to 51° and the barometer fell in a few hours from 29.27 

 to 28.73. About 9 P. M., a little more than an inch of rain having 

 fallen, the thermometer still standing at 51° the wind shifted sud- 

 denly to the S. W. and W. S. W. and a rapid change commenced. 

 The rain ceased, the winds blowing in strong gusts with a little 

 snow, amounting in all to less than a tenth of an inch; until the 



