156 Meteorology. 
METEOROLOGY. 
At Tunbridge Wells, on the night of Wednesday the 30th of 
July, about half after eleven o’clock, appeared a beautiful para- 
selene, or mock moon. It was at the distance of about 25 de- 
grees south of the moon, and was highly coloured with red aud 
yellow, and at length had the addition of a projecting and ta- 
pering band of light extending in the direction of the halonic 
radius. The phenomenon lasted about three minutes, The 
sky was full of the cérrws or curleloud, and the wanecloud passed 
over in fine veils here and there dispersed in wavy bars. A 
change had been conspicuous in the clouds to-day. . The long 
lines of cirrus extending to either horizon, large well-defined 
twainclouds to Jeeward, and waneclouds in the intermediate re- 
gion of the atmosphere, formed a character of the sky contrasted 
to the rapid production of rainclouds and showers which had 
gone on almost every day for a week before.—The harometer 
was stationary nearly all day, and till midnight, at 29-43. 
The Journal of Augsburgh of the Sth ult. has published the 
following observations made in the Observatory of that city:— 
** On the 7th inst. at 42 minutes past eight in the evening, 
Professor Stark observed, in a serene sky, a luminous band, of a 
colour similar to the Milky Way, in the direction of the head of 
Serpentarius, in the constellation Hercules ; and which passing 
below the Northern Crown, and then between the tail of the 
Great Bear, and the head of the Little Bear, ended in the star 
Alpha of the Dragon. Its length was 71 degrees, and its breadth, 
almost every where uniform, was two apparent diameters of the 
Moon. This phenomenon, which had a great resemblance to 
the prolongation which rapidly took place on the 13th of Sep- 
tember 1S11, in the tail of the great comet, disappeared at 
o8 minutes past eight. From this moment until one o’elock in 
the morning the Professor observed that the nebulous part No. 8, 
of the constellation of the Buckler of Sobiesky, when the lu- 
minous band had commenced, seemed to be surrounded with an 
aureola greater, more lively, ind more sparkling than usual. 
The great spot or crevice, which appeared on the 23d of July 
last on the sun’s disk, disappeared on the 4th of August. There 
were afterwards for med a great number of small spots, arranged 
in several groups, which Professor Stark intends to describe in a 
work which he proposes to publish very soon. 
Meleoro- 
