(To THE E DMZ or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—With reference
to " Wanderer's" contribution on "A Cycle of Summers " that appeared in your issue of the 4th inst., I beg to my that I have got the records of British weather for the last eighteen hundred years, which certainly do not indicate an in- variable cycle of three or any other number of years. Out of his list of thirteen triennial good or fine summers three may be struck out at once—via., 1881, 1890, and 1917—so that there is only a con- tinuous triennial period between 1902 and 1914 on four occasions, on two occasions, between 11393 and 1899, and on one occasion between 1884 and 1887. Since the beginning of the nineteenth cen- tury there have been fifty fine summers. Of these fifty fine summers there have been six occasions when three fine summers occurred in succession and one occasion in the " fifties" when there were four— via, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857—and four occasions when a fine summer was repeated the following year. Since A.D. 1800 there have been more fine summers occur at intervals of two than of three years, and there has never been more than six years' in- terval between fine summers, as there was between the fine summers of 1827 and 1833 and 1887 and 1893. In fact, the interval between fine summers may vary from one to six years, and under existing circumstances farmers could never be certain when a fine summer would occur, and would lose snore than they would gain by growing mainly grain crops every third year and root crops in the inter- vening wet summers.
But the farmers, not only of England, but all the world over, may with certain hope look forward to an agricultural millennium in the near future from the following facts, proving that the weather for any part of the earth's surface may be accurately pre- dicted for any length of time in advance. In the Agricultural Gazette in 1884 I predicted all the dry periods in England till 1902, the summer of which was predicted to be a fine one eighteen years before; the weather for 1890 was correctly predicted in tho Mark Lane Express; for 1891 in Tinsley's Magazine; the weather was correctly predicted for 1892, 1893, and 1804 daily, a year in advance, as vouched for by the Pall Mall Gazette, the Birmingham Dailg Post, Ac.; and these daily predictions were continued cor- rectly up to the end of 1901; and for England and London similar correct predictions have been continued by me up to the present time. The severe winter this year was correctly predicted; last spring, July and August this year were forecasted to be showery and under average temperature months; and the latest correct prediction was made for the August Bank Holiday in the Globe of the 30th ult.; and further predictions have been correctly made for other countries than England, notably India, for which the n.onsoon was accurately forecasted from 1902 till 1909. In the near future it is proposed to establish an office in London for the correct prediction of the weather for a year or any number cf years in advance by my system for the benefit of agriculture, du., for any part of the world.—I am, Sir, Ac., Bean Ciminero.
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