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SINCE Sir William Herschel suggested that variations in the visible changes of the sun's surface might be sensibly reflected in the meteorology of our planet, many investigators of high authority have endeavoured to determine the precise nature of the relationship between solar and terrestrial phenomena. In the seventies of last century it was decisively shown that the variation of certain meteorological elements coincided with that of photospheric activity as revealed by observations of sun-spots. The conclusions arrived at were expressed very definitely by Prof. A. Schuster in a paper presented to the meeting of the British Association in 1884. “There can,” he said, “be no longer any doubt that during about four sun-spot periods (1810 to 1860) a most remarkable similarity existed between the curves representing sun-spot frequency and the curves of nearly every meteorological element which is related to temperature. This is not, in my opinion, a matter open to discussion: it is a fact.”
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GREGORY, R. Cycles of the Sun and Weather . Nature 89, 147–149 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089147b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089147b0