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KNOWLEDGE. 



Fkbruarv. 1911. 



24. DREAMS. — I am convinced, after twenty years of 

 experience, that the scientific position with respect to dreams 

 is, that they may have an objective as \vell as a subjective 

 origin, J, C. W,Tightly says '' expects and it happens " ; 

 we hear coming upon our sleeping horizon, " Here is the Queen 

 of Heaven."' and we wake to find the full moon beaming into 

 our faces ; the sensation experienced between the sleeping and 

 the waiting is as a centripetal concentric curtain shutting. 

 Such are common to those v.ho enjoy or suffer from a cosmic 

 telepathy ; an intelligence sensed as within and without, and 

 which communicates with the clairaudient. often to his dismay 

 and terror, Interpretatic:. should be guarded ; the phenomena 

 are certainly not always subjective. We know this is the 

 case by such experiences of a sensed expectation becoming 

 a realisation occvr.i lag as the lower notes of a gamut, of 

 which the higher r.cles are an inter-communication of brain to 

 brain as perfect as a telephone, and which is known to 

 theosophists and others. The most scientific book on dreams 

 is bv Dr, Sancte-di-Sanctis, " I Sogni," but his first edition in 



not recognising the objective possibility of dreams, is. like the 

 great classic books on psychology and mental pathology, 

 deprived of half its value. To those who know first-hand 

 telepathic phenomena, there are no secrets which can be 

 hidden, and the demonstration of a disembodied intelligence 

 is ever sensed and accepted by them as an elementarv natnral 

 phenomenon, not of necessity spiritual, but a form of radiant 

 energy, and to which a few may possess the key — even human 

 beings. J. B. S. 



25. TIDES. — J. H. G. has made some slip in his question, 

 when he says that with deep oceans the tidal protuberance 

 should be behind the moon with direct Tides. I think that, 

 perhaps, if he re-reads pages 240-242 of Darwin's Tides he will 

 see that he is mis-stating the facts. He is unquestionably 

 right in saj-ing that the whole subject might, with advantage, 

 receive more notice in popular accounts. I may refer him to 

 '■ Chapters in Astronomy." by Claudius Kennedy. 



J. A. H.\RDC.\STLE. 



SOLAR DISTURBANCES DURING DECEMBER. 1910. 

 Bv FRANK C. DENNETT. 



December has been marked by a still further decrease in 

 solar disturbance. On six days out of the twenty-three on 

 which it was found possible to observe, no spots, maculae or 

 faculae, were visible, and on six others only faculae were 

 noted. At noon on December the 1st, the longitude of the 

 central meridian was 342° 52'. 



dwindled away from the 18th until the 22nd, when last seen, 

 -A faculic disturbance was observed in the same area on the 

 29th, which may possibly have contained a pore. 



No, 91, — .A pore amid a small faculic disturbance, only 

 recorded on the 2Sth, 



The chart is constructed from the combined observations 



DAY OF DECEMBER, 



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No, 89, — A group of three larger pores with smaller points 

 close up, seen on the 1 1th ; after slight changes it had dwindled 

 to a poorly-seen marking, on the 1 5th, when last observed. 



No. 89<T. — A triangular group of spotlets, from the 11 -13th ; 

 the rear spots were not seen after, but pores had developed in 

 front of the preceding one on the 14-16th, but it was not seen 

 after. The length of the group was 30,000 miles. 



No, 90, — A small spot had come round the eastern limb and 



of Messrs. J, McHarg, .A. .A, Buss, E. E. Peacock, and F. C. 

 Dennett. 



The second chart shows the distribution of the dark spots 

 upon the entire surface of the sun during the whole \^ear. 

 Ninety-one primary and thirty-one secondary outbreaks, of 

 which eighty-nine were in the southern, and thirty-three in the 

 northern hemisphere. It will be noted that certain areas 

 appear to be far more subject to disturbance than do others. 



DISTRIBUTION OF SPOT DISTURBANCES DURING 1910. 



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