432 SPECIAL RESULTS IN THE UllANO LOGICAL 



July : 26th to 30th ; Quetelet. Maximum more par- 

 ticularly between the 27th and 29th July. The lamented 

 Edouard Blot found from the oldest Chinese observations 

 a general maximum between the 18th and 27th of July. 



August : but prior to the stream of St. Lawrence, and 

 particularly between the 2d and 5th of the month. For 

 the most part no regular increase is observed from the 

 26th of July to the 10th of August. 



The " August period/' or " stream of St. Law- 

 rence" itself; Muschenbroeck and Brandes (Kosmos, 

 Bd. i. S. 130 and 403 ; English edit. pp. 114 andxxviii. 

 Notes 71 and 73). A decided maximum on the 10th of 

 August observed for many years. (An ancient tradition 

 prevails in Thessaly, in the mountainous districts around 

 Mount Pelion, that during the night of the Eeast of the 

 Transfiguration, on the 6th of August, the heavens open, 

 and lights, or candles, *:ay^\ia, appear in the midst of the 

 opening. Herrick, in Silliman's Amer. Jour. Yol. xxxvii. 

 1839, p. 337; and Quetelet, in the Nouv. Mem. de 

 FAcad. de Bruxelles, T. xv. p. 9.) 



October: the 19th and about the 26th. Quetelet; 

 Boguslawski in the "Arbeiten der schles. Gesellschaft 

 fur vaterl. Cultur," 1843, S. 178; and Heis, S. 33. 

 Heis brings together observations of the 21st Oct. 1766, 

 18th Oct. 1838, 17th Oct. 1841, 24th Oct. 1845, 

 llth 12th Oct. 1847, and 20th 26th Oct. 1848. 

 (On the three October phsenomena in the years 902, 

 1202, and 1366, see Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 133 and 398; 

 English edit. p. 118 and p. xxiv.) The conjecture of 

 Boguslawski, that the Chinese meteor-swarms of 1 8th 

 27th July, and the great fall of shooting stars of 1366, 



