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" Knowledge " of September 26th, in which the writer calls 

 attention to an unusual glow around the sun, and suggests 

 that the effects may be cosmical and a real appendage of 

 the sun. That the effect referred to is not connected with 

 the sun seemed to me easy to prove as, if belonging to our 

 atmosphere, a clear moonlight night might reveal the same 

 effect, but in a fainter degree. This supposition has proved 

 to be correct, as on the evening of Friday last, 3rd October, 

 there was an exact repetition of what I had so often seen 

 during the year at mid-day, and at other times of the day. 

 The coloured sketch shows very roughly the effect when 

 the sun is seen partly surrounded by cloud, and it may be 

 taken to show sunlight or moonlight allowing only for the 

 different intensities of the light. 



The pink glow is not persistent on any day when it may 

 be visible. The colour may be as bright as I have attempted 

 to show it for half an hour or more, and then all colour may 

 quickly disappear and only the usual grayness surrounding 

 the sun may be visible; and again the pink colour may 

 reappear as quickly as it vanished. The colour is often 

 seen to increase in intensity in a few moments, and always 

 appears of a darker tint if the sun is obscured during the 

 observation. 



Mr. K F. GwYTHER, M.A., described an Aurora seen on 

 the night of September 13th, off Rimouski, on the St. 

 Lawrence. When first seen the arch passed through the 

 zenith, and stretched to the horizon on either side. The 

 phenomenon remarked upon was that in the final stage in 

 place of the usual streamers the light flashed across the sky, 

 presenting the appearance of a border to hanging drapery 

 (represented by dark sky). Of this border, the uppermost 

 part was distinctly green in colour, whereas the lower fifth 

 or sixth part (in breadth) was distinctly purple. 



