PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



MANCHESTER 



LITEEAEY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 7tli, 1884. 



Professor VV. C. Williamson, F.R.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



It was announced that Mr. Henry Wilde had made a 

 donation of £400 to the Building Fund of the Society, in 

 addition to his donation of £100 towards the expenses of 

 the Centenary Volume. 



On the motion of Mr. Charles Bailey, seconded by 

 Mr. Alfred Brothers, the thanks of the Society were 

 voted to Mr. Wilde for his very liberal donations. 



"The Pink Sun-Glow," by Alfred Brothers, F.R.A.S. 



In the Photographic News for September 12th, Mr. C. 

 Ray Woods writing from the Riffel, in Switzerland, where 

 he has been stationed for some months for the purpose 

 of photographing the Corona, says, "But the most interesting 

 sight to me . . . was the remarkable haze round the sun. 

 A pink glow extended for some twenty degrees around 

 the sun, and at the extremity of this glow was a vivid 

 and well defined red ring . . . On every clear day we have 

 had here this ])eculiar haze has been more or less apparent." 

 . In the English Mechanic, a few weeks since, a letter on 

 the same subject appeared, written, I think, from Canada, 



Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc— Vol. XXIV.— No. 1.— Session 1884-5. 



