328° Remarkable Atmospheric Appearances. 
oted Musschenbroeck and Halley for elucidation: and 
with the like intention, I also noticed and delineated for the 
same work, vol. X. pp. 409-10, the very admirable meteors 
seen at New-York, on the 30th March, 1807. By consult- 
ing the passages referred to, you will find I have not been 
inattentive to such natural occurrences. It is my intention 
to offer your paper to our Literary and Philosophical Socie- 
ty, at their next meeting ; and to submit its contents to their 
learned and scientific decision. 1 
Your’s, respectfully, 
SamueL L. MITCHILL. 
Delineation of halos which appeared about the sun on the 
8th of September, 1816—continuance about one hour, (from 
2 to.3 o’clock, P. M.) at Newport, R. 1.—observed and de- 
lineated by D. MELVILLE. 
: Solar Halos. 
Prefixed to the following article, in the Rhode Island pa- 
per, from which we copy it, is the paragraph published in 
the National Intelligencer of September 11, announcing the 
