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found; but by this mode of collecting the rain, an accurate 
mode of estimating this is within our reach. 
To this branch, namely, an examination of solid and 
gaseous matter brought in the rain from each direction, I hope, 
on a future occasion, to find time to turn my attention to. 
Rev. H. Lloyd read an extract from a letter from Edward 
W. Chetwode, Esq., describing a remarkable lunar halo and 
paraselene, seen in the Queen’s County, on the night of the 
21st of May. 
«« T send a rough sketch of what struck me last night as a 
most beautiful and uncommon appearance, seen from our 
hall-door at twelve o’clock: the moon, with cruciform rays, 
surrounded by a halo; two bright spots in directum with the 
horizontal arm of the cross, on the periphery of the halo; a 
crescent light, not quite so intense as the horizontal spots, 
also on the periphery, in directum with the perpendicular axis 
of the cross; and at a considerable distance above it (perhaps 
the distance of halo-radius) another much larger crescent, 
looking as if it were the base of another halo circle. The sky 
had a good many of those electric sweepings of light through 
it at the time. No doubt there was a fourth bright spot on 
the halo, but it was hid by a dense mass of trees. ‘The two 
horizontal spots, which were very bright, had decided rainbow 
colours, strongly marked.” 
The second figure in the lithographic plate at the end of the 
part represents the phenomenon described by Mr. Chetwode. 
The phenomenon was likewise seen in the neighbourhood 
of Dublin, although not in so developed a form. The follow- 
ing are the notes of its appearance, as observed at Sandy- 
Cove, by Digby Starkey, Esq. 
«© Ten minutes after eleven, p.M. Wind N.W. Mist 
across the sky to the North, East, and South, in striz, as 
represented above. The line passing through the moon, and 
the eastern and western mock moons, dipped a little to the 
