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I do not think that in real winter weather we can consider 
any day as perfect when the rate is above 1 mile an hour. 
This amount, of movement would hardly be felt in warm 
weather, but with a very low temperature is more trying. 
It is hardly necessary to remind meteorologists that if the 
instrument had been placed on the top of a house the 
amount registered would have been very much larger than 
was the case. 
Some observations made for the Swiss Meteorologiea 
Society have been published to show that St. Moritz is in 
the winter months warmer than Davos. It seemed strange 
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that St. Moritz, which is nearly 1,000 feet higher, should 
nearly always average warmer. However, as the observa- 
tions made by Messrs. Townsend and Greathead between 
1868 and 1871* give a lower temperature, and as mine,*)* 
taken this winter on the same spot as Mr. Greathead’s show 
St. Moritz decidedly colder than Davos, I tried to find out 
the reason of the results to which I referred, differing from 
those obtained by Messrs. Townsend, Greathead, and my- 
self. Mr. Schmidt, who formerly took the observations, 
very kindly gave me every assistance in trying to find out 
the cause of this discrepancy, and on two occasions took the 
temperature for about a week at 1 p.m., in order that I 
might compare with mine. His house is lower down in the 
village, and is probably slightly warmer than the Kulm 
hotel ; but the mean difference from the 22nd to the 29th 
* Klimatotherapie von Dr. Hermann Weber, p. 156, ans Ziemssen’s 
Allgemeine Therapie, vol. ii. pt. 1. 
f A comparison with the Davos official observations taken in the Swiss 
way, as published in the local paper, shows that at one p.m. in January 
this year, Davos was about 2° Cent., and in March about 3|° Cent, 
warmer than St. Moritz ; and further comparisons show that I have 
obtained much the lower figures throughout the winter. The tempera- 
ture here was, at 9 a.m. in November, — 3’4° Cent., and at 9 a.m. in 
December, —6-06° Cent. 
