[ ExcrLosunx.] 
Offices, 7 Sak aa Chambers, 
Victoria Street. » London, S.W., 
5th, 1870. 
July 
** You are quite right in* saying that there is no establishable ,eon- 
nexion between any of the phenomena of meteorology, i.e., anything in 
r affecting the atmosphere and earthquakes, i 
al periods of rain or of drought in volcanic 
countries. may affect the tendency to eruption, and so indirectly that to 
earthquake. 
(Signed) ROBERT MALLETT, 
