12 SEPTEMBER 1863, Page 21

MAGNETIC STORMS.

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."

St. Mary's Church, September 7, 1863. SIR,—Permit me to direct the attention of the reviewer of Mr. St. John's "Sport in Morayshire" to Humboldt's "Cosmos," Vol. I., pp. 194-195, Bohn's edition. It is there shown that the question whether magnetic storms are or are not accompanied by noise is a very old one, and that the scientific evidence is decidedly against