282 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
rying latitude and declination, are almost entirely eliminated.* The 
station is in a high northern latitude, and within the influence of 
equatorial means, are comparatively unimportant; the four lunar 
quarters, each embracing an entire interval between a spring and 
to correspond more nearly with the times of presumable maxim 
and minimum disturbance. If we regard the day of each -_ 
of phase as the middle day of a week, (counting the he 
e 
ven days’ aggre 
gates in Table 1, and in the two summaries on pp. 136-7 (loc. cit), 
will furnish the following results: 
ee 
: ; : s ; | ae 
Aggregates of Tabular Rati 33 33 | 33 ao # ZF 
moenog et nies Basen em| eal] ae | ae | ge | BE hieee 
1825 to 1829, 770 | 606 | 679 | 766 | 1449 pt 
1830 to 1834, 1 7 | 599 | 731 | 1256) 
1835 to 1839, 5 8 668 | 617 | 1266 1370 
1840 to 1844, 643 | 70 76 662 nets 1353 
1845 to 1849, g30 | 726] 602| 627) 1 : 
1854, 687 | 726 | 614) 810 om 1457 
1855 to 1859, 507 | 722 | 728 | 185 | 12 ae 
1860 to 1864,_ "06 | 680 | 679} 754} 1 54 | 1448 
cone Oe 0eee 716 | 698 | 638 | 750 rs 1392 
sone... 618 | 753) 771 | 639 | 27) | 1435 
testo! Oe iis "65 | 724 | 608| 711 ae 1445 
te) a 651 | 701 | 702 18 1 | 1419 
hi. 667 | 726 | 704 | 693 | 181), 
1806 to teeg 20 "7" 708 | 714 | 656| 1729 8 1430 
2006 TM 687 | 721 | 681 | 709 | 8 
‘Ol inch or more,..... 1490 | 1484 | 1446 | 1511 sf) 0 
25 inches or more, _....._.~ 260 | 268 | 250| 272] 5 
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snerease of 
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* Lubbock found a barometric elevation of nearly *1 inch for HW 
declination, Phil. Trans., 1841, p. 73. He appears to have been led to the # 
tigation by Howard’s remarks “on a cycle of eighteen years 0 ere gd ed, ¥- 
height of the barometer in the climate of London.” Clim. of Londo oso of the 
i, p. 172; Phil. Trans., 1841, p. 277; seq. See also Zenger’s disc’ nodes and 
an annual temperature, as affected by the revolution of the moons 
apSides, Phil, Mag., Vv, 35, June, 1868 
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