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and auroras, to a certain extent supplement each other so that 
years of frequent storms correspond to those auroras, and vice 
versa. sic pen es that such a ioaiechon between suh- -spots te 
storms does not by any means sanction the supposition of a direct 
electrical pubbanion between the earth and sun, but may be sim- 
ply a consequence of a degree of insolation dependent upon the 
— 
ese changes i in the insolation, oan to Képpen, our 
themselves in different latitudes not cot emporaneously but suc- 
cessively. The phenomena of thunder-storms, on the other hand, 
do not depend alone upon the condition at the place in question 
with respect to temperature, but also on the condition of the at- 
mosphere at points far distant and belonging to another zone. ~ 
This appears ae distinctly in the storms which accompany elec- 
trical displa The peculiar intermediate position which the 
weather curve awkes between the curves of sun-spots and tem- 
perature may possibly find its explanation in this fact 
Von Bezold closes with showing that observations recently 
. iblished in Saxony confirm in a striking manner the apse 
cee eno —Ber. Ak. Miinchen, Nov. 7, 1874. E. 8. 
Blind Fish and some of t the associated species of. the 
denies Cave, Kentucky, probably of Marine ovigin.—Mr. 
W. Puram, in an _ ri published in the Bulletin of the Essex 
Institute, vol. vi, No. 12, 1874, remarks as follows on the origin of 
some of the present inhabitants, 
hat many, or, with two or three og 8 nearly all of the 
thirty or forty species of nent rates, articulates, m rae and 
oe lower ae including a few plants, now discovered in the 
es of cky, are of comparativ ely late sntsoduanibts is 
probable fois ee fact that they are so closely allied to forms 
living in the vicinity of the caves. mare that the blind fishes, the 
Chologaster and a few of the lower forms of articulates, as the 
Lernzan, parasitic on the blind fish, may have been inhabitants of 
the subterranean streams for a much longer period, is worthy o 
consideration on the following grounds: 
irst, the blind fish family has no immediate allies existing in 
the interior wate ,* the only x teen s of the family, in addition 
on wiki others I have considered the Heteropyet va belonging to the 
iis ‘onda with the Cy printabn cg Bat but I now writs! from f t information of 
their structure, doubts as to their close associati sor 
will be pre resented on another occasion. 
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