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Mr. J. Hyatt made some remarks on Auroras. 
On this evening, Monday, October 24, 1870, a very re- 
markable Auroral display has been observed over New York 
city. In the North, at first, was seen an obscure segment, 
low towards the horizon, surmounted by a pale glow of light. 
Later in the evening, this was replaced by an extensive mani- 
festation of beautiful streamers. 
But the most notable part of the phenomenon, was a band 
of brilliant red light varying in its different parts, constantly 
throughout the evening, in brilliancy, definition and breadth, 
but in general some ten degrees wide. It was seen early in 
the evening, and could be traced from within fifteen degrees 
of the horizon in the East and the West, extending entirely 
across the sky, south of the Zenith. 
The position of this rosy red band, viewed from the south- 
east corner of the Central Park, was from 3.15 to 8.30 P. M. 
N. York City mean time about as follows: 
In the East it could be seen just above the horizon, passing 
centrally and diagonally through the figure of Cetus, say be 
tween delta and zeta Ceti; thence going westward, it lay 
between Piscis occidentalis and gamma Aquarti and between 
Altair and Delphinus, often expanding in width beyond their 
boundaries. Thence it extended westward to the stars in the 
heads of Hercules and Serpentarius, nearly to the horizon. 
In all its splendid variations throughout the evening, this 
red band maintained its position in regard to the horizon of 
the observer standing in the locality before mentioned, the 
diurnal motion of the earth carrying the stars past it. 
Mr. W. H. Leaaert, called attention to some of the won- 
derful provisions in the vegetable kingdom, by means of 
which the seeds of plants are distributed ; the seed-case often 
holding the seed until the period of its ripening, when it is 
cast out in ways particular to the species of plant and special- 
ly provided therefor. 
Mr. J. W. Warp, called attention a remarkably fine 
exhibition of the results of glacial action, now to be seen 
