444 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
6. Spots on the Sun.—The following results of observatieals by H. 
Schwabe, at Dessau, (from the Astr. lachr.) are published in a paper — 
on the sun, by Alfred Gautier, in the Bibliothéque Universelle de 
Genéve for July, 1852. 
Results of 26 years of 78 wren on a ae of the Sun, by H. 
wabe, at Dessa 
Days of | Number of | Epochs of maxi-|No. of days each 
Date. observations [groups of spots| mum & minimum! y’r when nospots 
each year. each year. | groups of spots. | were ed. 
1826 277 118 22 : 
1827 273 161 2 
1828 282 225 Maximum. 0 
1829 * 244 199 0 
1830 217 190 1 
1831 239 149 3 
1832 (st) zo 49 
1833 267 83 Minimum. 139 
1834 273 120 
1835 244. 173 18 
1836 200 272 0 
1837 168 333 Maximum. a: 
1838 202 282 0 
1839 205 162 0 
1840 263 152 3 
1 283 102 15 
1842 307 68 64 
1843 324 34 Minimum, 149 
1844 820 52 111 
1845 332 114 29 
1846 314 157 1 
1847 276 257 0 
1848 “ato 330 Maximum. 0 
1849 285 238 0 
1850 308 186 2 
1851 308 151 0 
Mean of ) 268 days 164 groups. 
26 years te observations, 
In making his observations, M. Schwabe, on each clear day, counts 
number of spots seen in 1826 was 118; from this there was an increase 
to 161 in 1827 and 225 in 1828, ond then a decrease to 33 in 1833. — 
The number again increased, and was 333 in 1837, 282 in 1838, and 
34 in 1843. Again it increased and after five years in 1848, it was 
u e spots a sere 
Tn 1844 the largest was hardly 4’ broad. While in 1848 three groups 
were 83’ across, and one spot appeared for seven or eight consecutive 
rotations. 
M. Gautier observes that he has remarked a singular connection be- 
tween this decennial period i in the spots, and a decennial poriog & in the 
variations of 1! St ¢ needle Feely pointed out by Dr. Lamont 
are 
he. 
