The Rev. H.A.  Boardman, D.D., of Philadelphia, writes under date of October, 1868, to a public journal, the following:  “* * * The question is often asked, ’how far is St. Paul to be recommended as a resort for invalids?’ If one may judge from indications on the spot, invalids themselves have settled this question.  I have never visited a town where one encounters so many persons that bear the impress of delicate health, present or past.  In the stores and shops, in the street and by the fireside, it is an every-day experience to meet with residents who came to Minnesota, one, two, five, or ten years ago, for their health, and having regained, decided to remain.  I have talked with some who, having recovered, went away twice over, and then made up their minds that to live at all they must live here. * * * * ”

The statements of these observing and reflecting men are of the first importance, and require no scientific deductions to prove the benefit certain classes of consumptives may receive by a residence in Minnesota; but if it is found that whatever of data in meteorology there is bearing on the climate of this State, confirms the universal public judgment, this then becomes a matter of most agreeable interest.

It seems that the dryness and equability are the important features, as before observed.  A gentleman, given somewhat to investigation, made the statement to us, while in St. Paul, that he had carefully watched the ice-pitcher on his table during the summers, and that it was rare that any moisture accumulated upon the outside of the same, as is commonly the case elsewhere.  This is itself a most interesting scientific fact, and completely demonstrates the great dryness of the atmosphere during even the wet season of the year, as we have found the rain-fall in summer to be about two-thirds of the whole annual precipitation.  Physicians have not generally thought that the summer atmosphere of this State was any improvement upon that of other localities of like altitude, judging from the rain-fall, which, being up to the average of this latitude elsewhere, left as much of moisture, they have concluded, floating near the surface as at other points, and they are led to send patients into less dry districts, or even, as is sometimes the case, to the sea-shore.  Graver mistakes could not well occur than these, and it is to be ascribed to the little definite knowledge we as a people have on medico-meteorology.  Except for debilitated constitutions, which, it is true, precede many cases of consumption, the sea-shore is to be avoided, especially in every instance of diseased lungs.  Doubtless, the habit of advising a trip to the sea-side for the relief and cure of whooping-cough in children has led in great part to this error.  The trip to the mountains, if a location is well selected, is likely to be, and usually is, in summer a real benefit.  But then, the physician should know something of the reputation of the particular