THE MOON AND THE WEATHER. 



ble care so recently as 1830, and published the results of his observations, 

 which, shortly after, were re-examined by M. Arago. 



Schubler's calculations were founded on meteorological observations made 

 at Munich, Stutgard, and Augsburg, for twenty-eight years.* His object \\;is 

 to ascertain whether any correspondence existed between the lunar phases and 

 the quantity of rain which fell in different parts of the month. He defined a 

 rainy day to be one in which a fall of rain or snow was recorded in the mete- 

 orological journals, provided it affected the rain gauge to an extent exceeding 

 the six hundredth part of an inch. The following are the results of his obser- 

 vations of the number of wet days which occurred in each quarter ef the 

 month, and in each half of the month. 



* At Munich, from 1781 to 1788 inclusive; at Stutgard, from 1809 to 1812 inclusive ; and at Autr.i- 

 burg, from 1813 to 1S28 iitclusive. 



