Chase.] 194 [June 19, 



or altogether incredulous as to any traceable Influence exerted by either 

 of the primary planets. 



But if we admit the possibility of ethereal rotation, or tendency to 

 rotation, and especially if we consider how much we have yet to learn 

 concerning the properties of elastic fluids we may reasonably look for 

 important disturbances from the cumulative eifects of the undulations 

 which are exerted by planetary action. Those disturbances, however, 

 may be so modified by the daily fluctuations of the lunar tides, by differ- 

 ences in the stratification of the atmospheric currents, and by abnormal 

 local influences of various kinds, as to obscure, either wholly or in part, 

 aU traces of cyclical regularity in their alternations of maxima and minima. 



In the accompanying comparative tables there are both accordances and 

 discordances, for which I can account in no other way than by the 

 hypothesis of cumulative aerial waves, excited by the combined action of 

 the two constituent orbs of our binary star. Sun and Jupiter. The 

 magaitude of the flexures in the several rain-curves seems too great, the 

 resemblances and gradations in order of magnitude too marked, the 

 approximations to consistent regularity too uniform to be merely acci- 

 dental. The deviations, however, from seemingly normal curvatui'e are 



TABLE II. 

 Normal Percentages of Rainfall at various Stations in Jovian Synodic years. 



1 10.) 105 81 118 112 103 



2 102 102 88 136 116 109 



3 100 99 99 132 116 109 



4 98 100 108 111 112 lOd 



5 99 101 110 99 105 103 



6 1C2 101 99 96 100 ICO 



7 104 98 86 86 100 95 



8 102 98 84 71 101 91 



9 97 95 96 76 98 92 



10 91 95 107 108 98 99 



11 90 99 112 141 101 109 



U 94 108 113 141 108 112 



13 97 113 116 118 106 110 



14 95 115 120 107 103 108 



15 92 110 122 104 103 106 



16 90 1(!3 117 87 99 99 



17 92 98 103 67 94 91 



18 97 100 86 63 90 87 



19 100 103 76 69 86 87 



20 lot 104 76 73 81 88 



21 109 101 81 79 78 90 



22 114 96 88 84 80 92 



23 115 91 96 87 92 93 



24 Ill 88 103 90 108 100 



25 105 88 108 98 108 101 



26 103 W 113 114 102 104 



27 102 94 116 129 98 108 



23 100 99 112 ll9 99 106 



29 97 103 98 98 103 100 



80 97 103 84 98 108 99 



