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dental, but must be attributed to some cause repeating 
itself every sixty-two years. 
Now, the moon, as will be seen — for I have given her 
course during the same months — is at the present time 
moving through almost identically the same phases as 
those of sixty-two years ago, that is, her apogee, perigee, 
new moon and full moon, are now in the same relative 
positions at the same time of the year, to within three or 
four days, as they were sixty-two years ago. What other 
inference can be drawn from this than that, if she pro- 
duces effects, like causes must produce like effects ? 
On comparing the barometric and thermometric carves 
for any two similar periods, it will be seen that there are 
variations, but the general outlines are so similar that the 
readings of the present period (which are dotted in the 
Chart) look not unlike the shadows of those of sixty-two 
years ago. 
l am aware of all that has been done hitherto to prove 
that the moon does not affect our atmosphere, but we 
shall have to change all that now, as the new facts show 
that former workers in the subject have failed to discover 
how the moon exercises her power on it. I have a theory 
on the subject, and, while 1 ask astronomers to consider 
now facts only, I shall be prepared, when it is required of 
me, to state that theory, and to show that it was by work- 
ing theoretically that I came to the conclusion that the 
lunar effects must be as facts afterwards showed them to 
be. In the meantime astronomers are bound to admit the 
facts, whether they admit the cause or the theory which 
explains how such a cause can produce such effects. 
On examining the barometric curves, it will be seen 
that sometimes the depressions and elevations of one year 
