252 



REPORT — 1878. 



Table XXXVII. — Comparison of the Rainfall of Europe with the sun- 

 spots from 1833 to 1844. — Maximum year (1837) in 5th line. 



As these results, derived from the rainfalls at thirty-seven stations are 

 decidedly favourable, the results in Table XXXVI. must be regarded as 

 only partially unfavourable. 



57. For the next sunspot cycle we get the following results : — 



Table XXXVIII. — Comparison of rainfall with sunspots from 1843 to 

 1857. — Maximum year (1848) in 6th line. 



For the above period (1843-57) we have two stations in the southern 

 hemisphere, namely, the Cape and Adelaide. The Melbourne and Sydney 

 observations cannot be used, because in the former there is a blank for 

 the years 1851 to 1854, and because the latter were not commenced till 

 1856, the observations previously to that year having been made at South 

 Head. 



