Miscellaneous Intelligence. 69 
an anti-cyclonic rilge or center, as well as after the passage of a 
cyclone. 
(6.) Our recent storms have been anti-cyclonic, and there seems 
some reason for supposing that “— clones are the usual 
“weather-breeders,” even of such of our land storms as become 
loped. 
-) 
clones, which, however, may be easily ied peily overborne by 
the e grand anti-cyclonic whirls of a half million miles or more in 
(8 .) These and other peculiarities, point to a probable origin of 
storms in the blending of polar and equatorial currents, near the 
latitudes at which the general tendency of the winds changes its 
ection 
(9.) Mr. Scott has observed that when polar (E.) currents are 
blowing at the North, and equatorial (W.) currents at the South, 
(10.) iF the progress of a northerly or agente! current toward 
the equator is impede by an intervening southerly or ete 
current, the disturbance not only speedily follows, as indicated by 
Mr. Scott, but it is also, commonly, like most shower s, S.E. storms, 
and other marked cyclonic ee” of briefer Aation than 
those eins are primarily oe cloni 
5. European and Am paler me by Prny Eare 
Cuase, “(Bead before the ! amerlost Philosophical Society March 
3, 1871.)—There is still a a te Sl skepticism on the part of some 
skeptic wh regarding the moon’s influence on the weaned a 
Skepticism which i 
Seen has 
eli r. Scott, the Di- 
rector of the British Matentels ical Office, has mioticed an opposi- 
tion — the solar (or temperature rain-falls in Western Europe 
vaste: i 
ts of my previous investigations, strengthens the presumption 
; In our Atlantic States, si signs of fair weather may be most 
confidently trusted duri ring the ten er | pee , signs of rain 
