1874.] iJJ [Ohase. 



If these accordances can be properly interpreted as indicative of lunar 

 influence, they represent results analogous to those we might look for 

 from the simple means of observation extended over a period of about 

 one hundred years. When the average daily temperature is most settled, 

 near the Summer and Winter Solstices, the lunar curves seem most ac- 

 cordant, vphile they are most opposed when the changes of season and 

 temjjerature are most rapid and in the most opposite directions, near the 

 Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes. 



Having thus shown that the general agreement is too great to be re- 

 garded as merely accidental, and that there are valid reasons for im- 

 portant differences in the curves for different months, we are prepared for 

 the sixty-six comparisons of entirely independent curves, for which 

 Table III. furnishes the data. The sums of the agreements and die- 

 agreements between the curves for each month and for all the remaining 

 months, are as follows : 



A. D. 



January, 173 157 



February, 200 130 



March, 190 140 



April, 148 182 



A. D. 



May, 170 160 



June, 198 132 



July, 196 134 



A. D. 



September, 198 132 



October, 202 128 



November, 188 142 



December, 179 151 



August, 180 150 



Here again we find convincing evidence, and in some respects more 



satisfactory than before, of a uniformity of lunar action that is obscured 

 by the preponderating variations of solar action, only in the single month 



TABLE IV. 



Normal Percentage! of Rainfall at " Husband's," on Lunar Days of each Calendar 



Month, for Independent Comparisons at Intervals of Five or Six Months. 



Jan. Feb. Mar. Apl. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. 



1 84 90 111 126 102 86 86 98 99 90 81 81 



2 91 91 94 102 97 89 95 109 108 94 83 8.5 



3 99 95 87 89 93 92 08 113 117 110 98 96 



4 97 98 91 91 97 97 98 109 118 115 106 100 



5 94 104 105 99 104 104 99 101 109 111 104 96 



6 101 114 113 101 104 107 102 99 lOi 108 108 100 



7 Ill 110 102 97 102 108 109 105 106 112 116 115 



8 118 101 86 91 102 111 118 116 116 l--i2 129 130 



9 122 98 79 89 105 113 119 124 126 132 l:^6 136 



10 127 107 83 90 109 117 120 125 132 138 laS 136 



11 130 120 99 98 117 125 120 118 124 128 129 131 



12 1-^3 125 116 110 125 132 120 108 106 111 116 I'iO 



13 109 116 119 112 118 125 118 105 104 100 103 107 



14 99 105 111 102 102 114 120 113 102 97 94 97 



15 94 95 98 91 93 110 123 117 102 90 85 88 



16 87 86 84 88 87 103 115 106 91 80 75 81 



17 86 85 79 77 83 90 90 81 73 70 7i 79 



18 97 94 85 84 88 86 77 67 65 69 77 88 



19 108 100 89 90 93 90 80 70 69 76 87 lOl 



20 104 99 93 89 89 88 83 79 80 87 95 103 



21 89 91 92 85 81 83 83 83 87 93 109 93 



22 77 83 90 83 78 80 84 85 87 90 88 81 



23 79 88 90 88 79 80 85 85 82 82 80 77 



24 88 92 91 94 91 87 86 85 81 82 83 84 



25 94 93 91 99 102 94 88 87 88 91 95 93 



26 97 95 94 97 102 99 96 98 98 102 104 102 



27 101 105 no 108 102 104 107 108 107 107 inS lu3 



28 104 114 138 135 113 104 108 111 110 l'i9 105 103 



29 99 112 151 159 124 98 93 102 108 106 103 101 



80 89 99 134 151 119 87 83 94 100 98 93 90 



