I willingly concur in the opinion that this period may itse'f 

 be further characterized by variability."* 



32 I have distinguished by inverted commas the quotations 

 from Schwabe's manuscript communications from pp. 399-400. 

 Only the observations of the years 1826 to 1843 have already 

 been published in Schumachers Asti'on. Nachr. 110. 495 

 (Bd. xxi. 1844), p. 235. 



