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of his life, prepared for a Glossary of Provincial and Archa?ological 

 Words, intended as a Supplement to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary ; and 

 they mean to publish these MSS. in one volume 4-to, containing 

 Six Numbers of twenty sheets each, as a Supplement to Dr. Web- 

 ter's English Dictionary. The larger portion of the MSS. is now 

 in a state fit for publication; and the Supplement will be com- 

 menced as soon as the work of Dr. Webster, of which Eight Num- 

 bers have already appeared, is completed. They also intend to pub- 

 lish an octavo edition of Dr. Webster's English Dictionary, which 

 will contain all the technical and scientific definitions from the 

 quarto work ; but without the copious etymological matter, which 

 will not be required by ordinary readers, for ordinary purposes. A 

 multitude of words, collected by the Editor, and not found in the 

 quarto edition, will be inserted, and also a large collection of Archaic 

 terms from the MSS. of the late Rev. Jonathan Boucher. 



LUNAR RAINBOWS. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Annals. 



Gentlemen, 



An hour after moonrise on the showery night of the 31st ult., 

 I observed an entire lunar rainbow, of a whitish hue, the prismatic 

 colours not being clearly distinguishable. The moon was then 

 shining beautifully bright from beneath the dark brow of an over- 

 hanging cloud ; but her light was above one-fourth part less than 

 at her full, four complete days having nearly elapsed since her op- 

 position. 



Since witnessing the above I have made numerous inquiries both 

 in this neighbourhood and in Penzance, to ascertain whether lunar 

 rainbows are of frequent or of rare occurrence in Cornwall; and 

 the result of these inquiries is, that there is scarcely an individual 

 in the habit of being out late at night in this rainy county who has 

 not repeatedly seen them. I mention this, as all the writers on 

 meteorology which I have read, consider these phenomena of 

 much rarer occurrence than in reality they are. 



I am, Gentlemen, your very humble Servant, 

 Redruth, Feb. 28, 1831. Rn. EDMONDS. 



LUNAR OCCULTATIONS. 



Occupations of Planets and fixed Stars by the Moon, in May 1831. 

 Computed for Greenwich, by THOMAS HENDERSON, Esq. and 

 circulated by the Astronomical Society. 



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