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appearance. They did not observe any rays spreading 

 from it. The central disc they think is a reflected 

 image of the sun, and the enclosing ring is a rainbow. 

 The ring was in thickness about one-fourth of the dia- 

 meter of the disc, and distant from it by about the 

 8 ime extent ; but the recollection of one informant was 

 that the ring touched the disc, without any intervening 

 space. The shadow of a head, when thrown upon it, 

 covered about one-eighth of the whole diameter of the 

 meteor. The rainbow ring was not quite complete in 

 its lower part, but they attribute this to the interposi- 

 tion of the edge of the precipice. They see no reason 

 why the appearance should not be visible at night when 

 the moon is brilliant and appositely placed. They 

 profess themselves to have been a good deal surprised, 

 but not startled, by the spectacle. They would con- 

 sider it remarkable rather than astonishing, and are 

 disposed to call it a very impressive phenomenon.' 



It is to be regretted that Mr. Baber failed to see 

 the ' Glory,' and that we in consequence miss his own 

 description of it. There seems a slight inadvertence 

 in the statement that the head could be got out of the 

 way by stooping. The shadow of the head must have 

 alwaj s occupied the centre of the ' Glory.' 



Thus, starting from the first faint circle seen in the 

 thick darkness at Alp Lusgen, we have steadily followed 

 and developed our phenomenon, and ended by rendering 

 the * Glory of Buddha ' a captive of the laboratory. The 

 result might be taken as typical of larger things. 



[On Sept. 25, 1890, my friend M. Sarasin and my- 

 pelf witnessed at Alp Lusgen a very perfect example 

 of the white bow. See page 329/J 



