II* N'oTicES OP Auroras extracted from the Meteorological Jour- 

 nal OF REv^ Ezra Stiles, S.T.D., formerly President of Yale 

 College; to which are added, notices of a few other Auroras 

 recorded by other observers at New Haven, Conn., collected 

 a?id arranged by Puof. Elias Loomis. 



Rev. Ezra Stiles, S.T.D., was graduated at Yale College in 1746, and in 

 1749 became tutor in the College, in which station he remained six years. 

 In 1755 he was ordained pastor of a church in Newport, R. I. In 1776 

 the events of the war dispersed his congregation, and induced him to re- 

 move to Dighton, Mass., and subsequently to Portsmouth, N. H. In 1778 

 he became President of Yale College, and continued in this station till his 

 death, May 12, 1795. 



President Stiles commenced a Meteorological Journal at Newport, in 

 January, 1763, and continued it, with but slight interruptions, till May 10, 

 1795, only two days before his death. In this Journal he made frequent 

 memoranda of the Aurora Borealis. These memoranda have been carefully 

 selected from the Journal, and are embodied in the following catalogue. 



Auroras observed at Newport^ JR. I., Lat. 41° 29' N.^ Long. 71° 18' W.^ by 

 Rev. Ezra Stiles, S.T.D., formerly Presideiit of Yale College. 



No. 



1 1763, Nov. 11. Coruscations reached two-thirds the way to the pole 



star, and extended 80° around the horizon. 



2 1764, Jan. 23. Aurora Borealis. 



3 " Mar. 5. Aurora Borealis. 



4 " June 18. Aurora Borealis. 



5 " Sept. 28. Aurora Borealis. 



6 1767, May 16. Aurora Borealis. 



7 1768, July 20. Aurora Borealis. Very extraordinary. 



8 " Aug. 6. Aurora Borealis. 



9 " ^^^g- "i- Aurora Borealis. 



10 " Dec. 5. Aurora Borealis. 



11 1769, Jan. 5. Aurora Borealis. 



12 " Feb. 27. Aurora Borealis. 



13 " Apr. 20. Aurora Bor<?alis, 10° high. 



14 " July 7. Aurora Borealis. Streams scarcely to pole star. 



15 " July 8, lO'' P.M. Arch of aurora from N.W. crossed the me- 



ridian south of zenith. Passed a little south of Alpha Lyrse. 



16 " Oct. 7. Aurora Borealis. 



17 " Oct. 23. Aurora Borealis, streams. 



18 " Oct. 24. Aurora Borealis. 



19 " Oct. 25. Aurora Borealis. 



20 1770, Jan. 17. Aurora Borealis. 



21 " Jan. 18. Aurora Borealis. 



22 " Feb. 28. Aurora Borealis. 



23 " Mar. 23. Aurora Borealis. 



