1835.] Influence of the Moon on Rain. 525 



Plate XII. fig. 1, Chittra or Axis ; 2, Jhou Laghuna or spotted Porcine Axis ; 

 mature males. The Tarai of Nipal. 



(Second despatch.) — Extra sheets, three. 

 Plate I. figs. 1 and 2, scull of Ovis Naboor, old male ; 3-4, ditto of Ovis 

 Banbhera, junior; 5-6, ditto of musk of Kachar ; 7-8 ditto, of Antelope Hodg- 

 sonii, old male; 9-10, ditto of a Cervi Capra. 



Plate II. — Head and limbs of Ovis Nahoor, old male. 



Plate III. — 5 sketches of horns of Ratwa Muntjac, (to prove the various forms 

 they are apt to assume.) 



Two more extras. 

 Plate IV. — Ursus Tibetanus, male of two years ; and head and limbs of ditto ; 

 and 3, views of scull and teeth. 



Plate V. — Ant. Tetracornis, Chikara or Chouka, male head of ditto, separate. 



(March, 1835.) — Another extra sheet. 

 Plate VI. — Capra Jh&ial, wild goat of the northern region. Views of head and 

 horns separate. 



(The Tehr of the western hills is a variety with nodose horns, and probably 

 identical with H. Smith's C. Jemla'ica.) 



{July 1st.) — Extra sheet. 

 Plate VII. fig. 1, The Arna ; 2, Gouri Gao, mature males. (Bubalus Arna 

 and Bisonus Gavcens.) Tarai. 



Plate VIII. figs. 1, 2, Arna;3, tame Buffaloe ; 4, Yak ; 5, 6, Gduri Gao. Sculls 

 and heads. 



N. B. The delineations of the extra sheets to be substituted for prior draw- 

 ings of the same subject. 



XIII. — Miscellaneous Extracts. 



1. — Influence of the Moon on the Weather. By F. Marcet. 

 [Extracted from Jamieson's Edin. Phil. Journal, 1835.] 

 On the question whether the moon has any influence on the weather or not, there 

 are two opposite opinions : the great mass of the people, including sailors, boatmen, 

 and most practical farmers, entertain no doubt whatever, of the influence of the 

 moon ; whether the change of the weather at the lunar phases will be from fair to 

 foul, or from foul to fair, none of them pretend to decide beforehand, but most 

 of them think, that at the new and full moon, there is generally a change of some 

 kind. On the other hand, philosophers, astronomers, and the learned in general, 

 attribute this opinion altogether to popular prejudice. Finding no reason, in 

 the nature of atmospheric tides, for believing that changes should take place on 

 one day of the lunation, rather than another, they consider the popular opinion 

 to be unsupported by any extended series of correct observations. 



In the Annuairefor 1833, Arago, the learned editor, has presented the result 

 of the observations of Schtjbler in Germany, during twenty-eight years, or 348 

 synodic revolutions of the moon. During this period of 348 new moons, &c. 

 the number of rainy days were as follows : 



It rained on the day of the new moon, 148 times. 



Do .do first quarter, 156 do. 



Do do full moon, 162 do. 



Do do last quarter 130 do. 



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