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A Huge Puffball. 



Ithaca, New York. 

 To the Editor : — 



Has a larger puffball been found than 

 this? It was eighteen inches high, 

 fifty-two inches around the smallest 

 diameter, and seventy inches the larg- 

 est. It weighed twenty pounds, and 



as follows. In the northwest heavy 

 clouds were hanging; the southeast 

 was nearly clear with a few light 

 clouds here and there. The moon rose 

 at about 9.30 P. M. and being near its 

 full gave quite a light in our rare 

 atmosphere. Quite a sprinkle of rain 

 was falling from a cloud directly over- 



A HUGE PUFFBALL. 

 It is eighteen inches from top to bottom. 



was found at Bluff Point, Lake Cham- 

 plain, New York, in August, 1910. 

 Truly yours, 



George M. Gould. 



Rainbow at Midnight. 



Evans, Colorado. 

 To the Editor : — 



On the evening of June 24th, a num- 

 ber of young folks, of wdiich I was one, 

 leaving a party, had their attention 

 called to an unusual sight — a rainbow 

 at near the midnight hour. The condi- 

 tions of the sky at the time were about 



head and the light from the moon in 

 the southeast made a plainly discern- 

 ible bow in the northwest, the top of 

 whose arch reached, I should say, 

 two-fifths of the way to the zenith and 

 extended to the earth on either side 

 making an arc which was the largest 

 of any rainbow I have ever seen. The 

 colors could not be made out. When 

 first seen it was 11:25 P. M. and was 

 at its brightest a little after 11 130 and 

 lasted some ten or twelve minutes. 

 Has anyone else ever observed a simi- 

 lar phenomenon? 



