Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Education, Physics, Superstition, Meteorology, Astrology, Cultural Geography

    Notes that in some rural districts, where 'the study of physics is still in its infancy', people consider foul weather or the 'appearance of the Aurora over the Bank of England' to be a 'favourable augury', the Zodiacal light to be a 'forerunner of the turnip-fly', and the parhelion to betoken drought.