Excerpt from Latest Advances in Weather Forecasting at a Long Range by Sunspots and Planetary Positions

The sunspot is not yet, fully understood, nor is meteorology, nor planetary influence, nor electromagnetism. However much we may imagine we know about these subjects, no well-trained mind can deny that much more remains to be learned. Hence we do not feel disposed to agree with those who say these fields have been investigated and found wanting so much that our knowledge of the causes of phenomena remains in the statu quo of the old ignorance. Much more is now known of the sunspot than, say, ten years ago, thanks to Dr. Hale of Mt. Wilson and his devoted and learned staff, not to mention others in and out of the United States. Meteorology, too, has advanced to a knowledge of causes undreamt of before, and our wireless systems of telegraphy have opened new avenues of indefinite progress. Planetary influence on both sun and earth has been subjected to rigid tests and marvelous results have been obtained.

Hence it were but little surprise if at no distant date, there were a complete turning of tables. The very men, who had been, as it were. Relegated to an obscure corner and belittled as aspirants to scientific treasures beyond reach, will be the very ones that a grateful posterity will hail as benefactors of the race. We have special reference to such painstaking students of nature as have spent from ten to fifty years of their useful lives in tracing the complicated phenomena of astronomy, meteorology, seismology and biology to their proximate and ultimate causes, and yet have been so modest as to avoid self-assertion and even publicity during the experimental period of their proceedings.

Not only is the sunspot now better known in itself, but also in its relation to aero-physics, the jealous department where every man is wiser than his neighbor and the mixed up total of individual wisdoms, if only photographed, might be exhibited as the picture of general unknowableness. The modest quota contributed by the Santa Clara Observatory may be described as follows.

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