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Chase. ] Die) [March 3, 
Mr. Chase offered some additional evidence of the contrast 
between Huropean and American rainfalls; and communicated 
some American peculiarities in the relations of barometric 
pressure of winds and storms. (See below.) 
Pending nominations Nos. 669, 670, and new nomination 
671, were read. 
Mr. Chase made a communication on the subject of pro- 
viding suitable accommodations for the observations of the 
Signal Service Bureau, which was referred to the Curators 
and Hall Committee, with power to act. 
And the mecting was adjourned. 
Kuropean and American Rain-faiis. 
3y Priny EARLE CHASE. 
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, March 3, 1871.) 
There is still a lingering skepticism on the part of some meteorologists, 
regarding the moon’s influence on the weather, a skepticism which is 
perhaps owing to the apparent want of agreement between observations 
at different places. There is, however, no good reason for expecting such 
accurate correspondence as is sometimes deemed essential. Dr. Emerson 
(Proc. A. P. S., XI. 518) has communicated to the Society his early ob- 
servation upon the reversal of the European barometric prognostics on 
this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Blodget (Climatology, pp. 221-257) has 
pointed out various climatologic contrasts, and Mr. Scott, the Director 
of the British Meteorological Office, has noticed an opposition between 
the solar (or temperature) rain-falls in Western Europe and Eastern 
America, analogous to that which I have indicated in the lunar rain-falls. 
The confirmation thus afforded to the results of my previous investigations, 
strengthens the presumption that, in our Atlantic States, signs of fair 
weather may be most confidently trusted during the ten days preceding, 
signs of rain during the eight days following, full moon. 
In order to make a comparison between stations of similar latitude, I 
obtained from the ‘‘ Observatorio do Infante D. Luiz,’’ a record of the 
quarterly rains at Lisbon for sixteen years, which T have embodied, to- 
