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hp m Sere thus be seen that, piste ew the complete veiling 
disturbances whic y be due to the moon’s variable 
nee and “Sages gh dione wie a marked tendency to increase 
~poeanile e and to decrease at syzygy, both in the amount ie 
rain and in the number of rainy days. ‘This tendency, whic 
comes evident even in the majority of the five years’ Pin crn 3 is 
uniformly oye in all the groups of ten op twenty years, and 
Peunsy 
ilar tides at Philade one The forty years’ aggregates (1895 to 
1864, inclusive, at each station) exhibit the following ratios of 
rainfall : 
Surrey. Philadelphia. 
Re ind oS ee, 98-2 97°6 
Beer quarter, © 363° 2 Soi Se ae eee 100°3 
vs moon, Sata se a PA Ot aie 97-4 95°8 
. — t quarter, See 106°3 
1854-1866) on the atest of change. (See Mr. 
" unication, Proc. Roy. Soc., v, 16, ember 12, 
1807) 1 ; Seas: results are, 
Ave daily fall. Ratios. 
Day of new moon, vo ae ae meee “402 862 
ania, ae ee ee 114°7 
“ fall moon, SON, ee gee eee | 85°6 
“last q ; Gel ee ee 1135 
3. On a supposed connection between the amount of Rainfall 
I and the changes of the Moon , being an extract of a letter from 
H. N. Hexnzssry x, Esq., First Assistant on the Great as i 
res. R. 
y 
AsI happe ned to possess a record of the rainfall at the 
on. of the Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey 
Colo Ussoorie, ne over thirteen consecutive years, I obtained 
mel Walk 8 permission to make use of the Register, in con- 
elie 
The results tabulated have been tained by employing an 
with that t intermediate intervals. The method of 
wo. adopted is explained in the foot-note to the ‘Table. 
raed average result may be stated thus: pote 
ld changes ” of the moon the mean — fall of rain is 0-466 
*en “the changes” of the moon the mean daily fall is 0°525 
cts Opposition to the popular belief on the subject. I in- 
be ; ble, on the chance of its proving sufficiently interesting 
_— Wverage ob 
oe cages” ¢ daily fall as ae means for comparing t the fall at “the 
