18 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
But when the earth reaches the year of grace 1906, it will need 
to gird up its loins and prepare for a severe visitation. Here 
you see the influence of the equinox of Saturn is not merged 
eradually into that of Juipter as before, but is almost exactly 
superimposed upon that of Jupiter, and the other planets drop 
into line with their equinoxes, indicating that their disturbing 
influences will be united at their maximum in 1906, and the 
electric tension of our planetary system will be raised propor- 
tionately. Then, ladies and gentlemen if there is anything in 
this system of for ecasts, lock out for disturbances of an extra- 
ordinary character.’ 
The foregoing forecasts have been abundantly justified by 
the events. The year 1902 was one of considerable violence, 
(eruptions of Mt. Pelee, Soufriere and other disturbances ) as 
predicted nearly nine years previously; the year 1906 has been 
one of extraordinary violence as predicted nearly fourteen 
years previously. The accuracy of these forecasts, made re- 
spectively nine and fourteen years before the events, challenges 
further investigation of the Tice theory, to ascertain whether it 
may not be well-founded and susceptible of conclusive proof. 
