liistory of Aslrovomij for the Year 180(3. -4 1 



On the 8th of August there was an earthquake upon tlie 

 banks of the Jenis^-eick, in Siberia. 



On the llth of December, in the neighbourhood of jN.'ay- 

 enne and V^itrie, three steeples were destrovcd l)v tfiun- 

 der: on the l3th it thundered at Brest: on the 14th it was 

 as fine a day at Paris as any in spring; the cold commenced 

 aher the moon's passage througli the e;]uator. 



M. Lamarck has pubhshcd, for the eighth time, hh Me- 

 teorological Annuary for 1S07 : he congratulates huiisclf for 

 having had the courasre to devote himself to the study, and 

 for undertaking the publication of this aunuafy : at first he 

 only considered the two alternate declinations of the moon } 

 at present he considers the different systehis of the moon's in- 

 fluence, and the perpetual substitution of the one f()r the 

 other. These different systems change incessantly their re- 

 lations and their effects at every lunar pouit; the new moon', 

 apogecj equinoxes, and solstices, vary on account of the gene- 

 ral dispositiori of the other points at the epoch at which they 

 arrive; and he deduces from this, for every month, proba- 

 bilities for the temperature. 



lie has given in the 7th volume, for 1S06, an epitomc-of 

 his meteorological systemj which vi only applicable to the 

 generalities of the atmosphere. He gives in the latter the 

 influences which the general disposition of the limar points 

 seems lb him to exercise upon every arriving point ; whence 

 resuii for this point modifications which render its action 

 sometiirieS efficacious, and sonieliiiics incapable of being 

 so. 



He has added some memoirs upon easterly fuul westerly 

 winds, and upon the difference of phrenoniena, upon atmo- 

 ■pheric electricity, and upon the courses of its variations. 



1 am desirous that observers should exaininfe and ve- 

 rify the principle? and results, which have been j)crhaps too 

 much neglected hitherto. If there were a great number of 

 points of observation, we might succeed in following the 

 direction of a wind from its origin, and thereby arrive at its 

 cause, and follow these variations and effects. 



After having announced all the good books which h.lvc 

 Vol. C'S. No. 111. Ai/g, lb07. Q_ appeared, 



