ON SUNSPOTS AND RAINFALL. 



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Table XXXII, 



-Cape of Good Hope (Observatory). — Minimum years 

 in 8th line. 



The mean of the mean cycle is 24 - 6 inches, and the mean rainfall, 

 from 1849 to 1872, is 24-9 inches. 



In both tables the rainfall and the sunspots are respectively below or 

 above their means in the same years. 



VIII. — Combinations of the preceding Results. 



50. Combining some of the results now obtained, we get the following 

 table, from which it will be seen that the maximum and minimum 

 rainfalls apparently coincide with the maximum and minimum sunspots 

 respectively. 



Table XXXIII.— Combination of Tables III., VII., XVIII., XXI., and 

 XXVII. — Maximum years in 6th line. 



51. All the preceding tables have been formed in the manner described 

 in paragraphs 4, 5, and 7. 



52. If it should be said that in the first half of the method the 

 sunspots and the rainfall for the minimum years are too much dispersed, 

 and that in the second half the sunspots and the rainfall for the maximum 

 years are also too much dispersed, the reply would be that the method 



