METEOROLOGY 383 



The Aurora Australis. 



During the winter months auroral displays were frequently 

 seen — altogether on sixty-five days in six months, or an average of 

 every third day — but for want of apparatus no exhaustive observa- 

 tions could be attempted. The records are confined to brief notes 

 of the position of the aurora at the times of the three daily 

 observations. 



The frequency of the different directions, reckoned in percentages 

 of the total number of directions given, as for the wind, will be 

 found in the following table: 



N. and N.E. are the most frequent, and together make up one- 

 third of all the directions recorded; but the nearest points on 

 either side of this maximum — E. and N.W. — are also very frequent, 

 so that these four points togethei^-N.W., N., N.E., E.— have 

 64 per cent, of the whole. The rarest direction is S.W., with only 

 3 per cent. (From the position of the Magnetic Pole in relation 

 to Framheim, one would rather have expected E. to be the most 

 frequent, and W. the rarest, direction.) Probably the material 

 before us is somewhat scanty for establishing these directions. 



