1883.] 5^* [Chase. 



H2O (Note 298), about 1,56 times the molecular velocity of hydrogen, and 

 about I of the equatorial velocity of Sun's rotation. All of these relations 

 are of an order of magnitude which tends to confirm the belief that solar 

 radiation and gravitating circulation represent equal actions and reactions, 

 and that dissociation and recombination within Sun's photosphere may 

 maintain luminous, thermal, and actinic sethereal oscillations. 



305. Cometary Fugues. 



The spectral harmonies in Comet Wells (Notes 395, 303), as well as the 

 planetary harmonies on which I based some of my successful predictions, 

 (Notes 33, 133, 261, etc.), are of the nature of fugues, or harmonies which 

 follow each other at certain intervals which are determined by rhythmic 

 laws. The principle of the fugues being susceptible of indefinite exten- 

 sion in two directions, it is not strange that even the stars should bear 

 witness to it (Notes 34, 46, 85, 111-5, 130-2, 154-5, 168, 262). Among the 

 intra-modular positions which have verified my anticipations, two (Note 

 32) are known to be cometary; two represent the places of brilliant bodies 

 which were seen by Watson and Swift, during the total solar eclipse of 

 1868, but which, having been seen by no subsequent observer, may also 

 have been cometary; two were deduced from a comparison of planet-like 

 shadows crossing Sun's surface, and one from sun-spots of various forms, 

 which have a harmonic period; seven indicate periods which are in strict 

 harmonic accordance with motions of our stellar system's chief centres, of 

 nucleation (Sun), of condensation (Earth), and of nebulosity (Jupiter). 

 All the indications seem somewhat likely to be cometary, rather than 

 planetary, and thus confirmatory of Herschel's theory of nebular "sub- 

 sidence." As the statements of these confirmations of cosmical harmonic 

 motion are scattered among various papers, I collect them here, in order 

 to show, at a glance, the character of the various accordances. 



