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NOTES TO OCTOBER RECORD. 



1st. Four reindeer seen ; 8 P. M., the crack ruuniug up the harbor widened ; hove the ship eighty 

 yards further ahead. 



2d. Two small herds of deer seen. 



3d. 10''- 30 m - P. M. lightning observed. 



4th. Three ptarmigan seen. 



5th. Two herds of deer seen. 



6th. Reindeer seen. 



7th. A few reindeer and ptarmigan seen. 



8th. A reindeer shot; 10 P. M. comet visible. 



9th. 10 P. M. comet visible. 



10th. Four reindeer seen. 



12th. One reindeer seen. 



13th. Built an ice-house for magnetic observatory. 



15th. Thickness of ice formed since the third, 9| iuches. 



19th. Lieut. Hobson and party started to carry depot clown the w-est coast of Jioothia at 8 A. M. 



20th. A hare shot; many seals seen in the open water in the straits ; 8 P. M. halo round the moon, 

 diameter about 45°. 



22d. 8 P. M. Prismatic halo around the moon. 



2Sth. 8 P. M. aurora in the S. E. [about 20° above the horizon]. 



29th. From 8 P. M. until midnight, faint aurora between S. and N. W. [about 25° above the 

 horizon, the extremities being joined by a narrow band stretching across the zenith. — B. of T. Papers. ] 



30th. A hare shot, two deer seen ; 8 P. M. faint aurora in the S. W. 



31st. Two ptarmigan shot ; 10 P. M. faint aurora in the N. W. 



