A Parisian physician, for instance, nas collected statistics' showing that the largest number of births occur when the moon is near the horizon. Tt has also been more or less satisfactorily proved that certain sea Janimals, and particularly sea ching, "are always plumper at full The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Great Britain has proved that the Best catches of herring may always be expected at {ull moon, and that the record "hauls" generally Jcoineide with a full moon during the [second week in October. This, it is thought, may be caused either by the attraction of shoals to the surface by the greater amount of moonlight, Jor by the movement of the water Jeaused by the moon, causing con-Jeentrations of the millions of tiny ocean creatures and plants which sh. 2 form the food of herrings and other:
Research at-the moment is being Jconditeted all over the world in an Jeffort to trace the connection be-~ tween the moon and the weather, Jand between the moon and the iRrowth of plants.
Although, due to a shortage in staff, Slecawel Observatory will not fbe present at the gathering of jselentists in northern Japan next month, it will make observations of he partial eclipse which will be Visible, weather permitting, in JShanghal, commencing at 1043 am. and photographs will probably be {taken for record purposes.
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