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running from Leo, on the X. liori/oii, reaching its greatest height above (M minorum, passing 

 through tin- Ilyades ami ending at a point l:elo\v these on the SE. horizon. This had faded almost 

 completely at 17. and a lew pule streaks crossed the y.enith from X. to SE. The aurora wassimj 

 ilar in character to this at >. lint the arch passed between Castor and Pollux. The magnetic 



lies had in the mean time returned to their normal readings since the disturbance at 1 a. m. 



: a. in. a broad haxy baud stretched from Bootes close to /emth through Cygnus and Lyra to 

 the SK. in Aries. At r.17 this began to spread and break irp, rapid gyratory motion commencing 

 in Cassiopeia, and spreading in a tew minutes all over the sky except the NE. There was an 

 indescribable confusion of smoke-like wreaths, whirls, cuitains, and shooting streamers. The 

 motion was all gyratory, or motion of translation, very rapid and in no given direction. A special 

 center of g\ rat ion, whirling from X. to S., developed rapidly and as rapidly disappeared in Per; 

 sens. The display reached a brightness of 3 to 4, and showed rather faint colors green, rose, and 

 peach blossom. In about 5 minutes all became suddenly pale and quiet, but showed sign of break- 

 ing out again. At 5 a. in. a pale yellowish band ran from Is. to SE. horizon, reaching an altitude 

 of about 40, quiescent (brightness 1 to 2). At a. in. three arcLes were observed forming a tri- 

 angle (brightness 1 to l'}. At 7 a. in. oue broad baud crossed the /.enith from NW. to ESE. (bright- 

 ness 1 to 2). No aurora was observed at 8, but at 9 a. m. a pale, arched band (brightness to 1) was 

 observed low in the SW. (20 r < altitude), running from Canis Minor in the SE. to the lower part of 

 Taurus, through Orion. This was the end of the aurora, fading before daybreak. 



October 13, 1882, 2 . m. to 9.50 a. m. The haze which overspread the sky was quite thin at 2 

 a. in., and a hazy, quiet, arched, and slightly sinuous band, white in color, passed from a point in 

 Taurus on the SE. horizon to a point in Coma Berenices on the northern. The arch slowly rose; 

 the crown being just above Castor and Pollux at 2, close to Capella at 2.10, and when last observed 

 at 2.17 just above Capella. and still rising, the band spreading slightly (brightness 1, rising to 2 at 

 the IN. end at 2.10). At ;.; and 4 this aurora was replaced by a few vague traces. I'p to 9 a. m. no 

 aurora was observed, the weather being hazy. At that time a, white, quiet arch was observed pass- 

 ing from the ESE. through Canis Minor and Taurus to the WNW., about 2 in breadth, altitude 

 50 brightness 2. At 9.20 there was a second arch about 2 above and parallel to the first, not 

 continuous, but consisting of a series of luminous patches resembling long-drawn cirrus clouds'j 

 motionless, and similar in brightness to the first arch. At 9.40 a. m. the western extremity of the 

 first and broader arch was observed to slowly change form until it resembled the folds of a curtain, 

 when the whole slowly drifted southward and disappeared about 9.50 a. in. 



October 14, 1882, 2 a. in. to 9.4(i a. m. At 2 a. m. a narrow and barely perceptible band, per- 

 fectly straight, ran from the SE. horizon through Andromeda nearly to the zenith, paler than the 

 Milky Way. This was perceptibly brighter at 2.20, and there was ;i pale glow along the horizon 

 in the NE. At 3 this had developed into a slightly sinuous band running from the SE. horizon 

 through Pegasus across the sky through Cygnus and Lyra to the XXW. (brightness 1). Also a 

 pale arched band, much curled at the east end, from Taurus through Auriga, running close to the 

 Dipper and fading in the N. The main arch drifted to the, SW. slowly and beamed brighter (1 to 

 2), dividing longitudinally into three bands, while the eastern aurora faded. At 4 a. in. three bauds 

 crossed the southwestern sky, united at the horizon, and spreading at the center from the SE. to 

 NW. Altitude about 20, breadth at broadest part 10, brightness 2 to 3, occupying constella- 

 tions Pegasus, Dclphinus, Aquila, and Ophiuchus. Upper baud somewhat broken into streamers, 

 especially at SK. cud. This was all fading rapidly at 4.20. At 5, two luminous yellowish bauds 

 (brightness 2 to 3), passed from SW. to 2sW. through Delphiuus and Serpeus. At G, one arch, with 

 bright streamers moving from W. to E. and vibrating, passed from Orion through Ursa Major 

 and ended in Bootes (brightness 3). At 7, a band (brightness 2 to 3) rail from Cancer through Ursa 

 Minor. At S, a band with bright streamers at the north crossed the /enith from NNW..to SSE. 

 (brightness 3 to 4). The whole moved slowly southward. At 9, a broad, broken, vaporous arch 

 from X. to S. crossed the zenith. This changed its form a little but not its position, until it faded 

 about !M<; (brightness to 1). 



< >t-li>li i- !,">, 1SSL', 12.5 it. m. to 10 a. m. The aurora commenced as a narrow pale baud, begin- 

 ning near the Pleiades and running along the horizon fading in (Jemini. This was a little brighter 

 at 12.20. At 1.20 it extended across the zenith from Aries on the S-E. horizon to Leo on the 





