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at 8, and continued to be seen up to about 11.30, last appearing as i'aint streamers in the E., KSE., 

 and W. The magnetic needles wore comparatively undisturbed all night. 



November 30 (did December 1, 1882, 9.15 p. m. to 10.30 a. m. The aurora began as a lew vertical 

 streaks in the USE. in Aries and Perseus, and developed into a regular arch of streamers (1), crossing 

 through ( iemini and Ursa Major into Bootes in the NNW. This had faded at 10.10, and the aurora 

 was the same as at the beginning, with a few additional streaks in Lynx and Auriga. At 11.15 

 there were traces only of aurora in the S. near the horizon. At 12.10 a bright band crossed the 

 zenith from <t Tauri to Hercules, slightly tinged with yellow, and vibrating. At 1.15 a narrow, 

 Iwisted streak crossed the zenith from ESE., close to the.horizon, to the NNW., through Orion, 

 Auriga, Camelopardalis, Ursa Minor, Draco, and Corona Borealis (brightness 1 to 2). From Orion 

 it was broken up into streamers. There was also a pale, hazy, perfectly quiet and regular arch 

 in the SW., reaching an altitude of about 25. At 2.15 traces only were visible in Orion, and 

 3.15 traces of bands crossing the zenith from NW. to SE. were seen. At G.15 two pale white 

 bands (brightness 1) extended from. ESE. to WNW., the larger from Gemini, through Auriga and 

 Lacerta, to Cyguns, about 12 or 15 south of the zenith, the second being somewhat shorter and 

 about 10 below" the first. At 7.15 several yellowish bands (brightness 2 to 3), vibrating rapidly 

 from W. to E., extended from Andromeda, through Cassiopeia, Camelopardalis, and Ursa Major to 

 Leo and Coma Berenices. The whole drifted slowly southward. At 8.17 a broad, irregular band 

 of white, quiet light extended from Leo Minor, through Ursa Major and Draco, to Cygnus (bright- 

 ness 2). At 9.15 two bauds (brightness to 1) extended from Aries, through Gemini, to Canis 

 Minor and Cancer, and only faint traces were visible at 10.17. There was a slight magnetic dis- 

 turbance from 7 to 10 a. m., but otherwise the needles were remarkably quiet. 



December 1 and 2, 1882, 9.15 p. m. to 10.17 a. m. At 9.15 p. m. there was a faint patch of light 

 in Aries in the ESE. After this preliminary flash no more aurora was seen till 12.15 a. m., when 

 there were very faint streamers in Coma Berenices and Canes Venatici, and a broad, low, hazy 

 arch from Coma Berenices, through Bootes, Hercules, Aquila, and Delphinus, to Pegasus. The 

 dark segment was quite strongly marked below the arch. From 1 to 1.15 there were faint hori- 

 zontal bands low in the NE. from Orion through Cauis Minor and Leo, and a very evanescent 

 baud from a Bootis to the tail of Ursa Major, and at 1.15 a very faint band across the zenith from 

 Lyra to Taurus (brightness to 1). At 2 to 2.15 the aurora was essentially the same, with the 

 addition of some well-defined streamers (0 to 1) in Leo and Leo Minor. There were also very faint 

 traces crossing the zenith. At 3 a. m. there were very faint traces of a band from Cygnus across 

 Pegasus in the western sky and traces in the east and south. At 3.10 there was a patch of stream- 

 ers (1) in Coma Uerenices and Bootes in the NNE., one reaching up to Ursa Minor. These had 

 faded to traces at 3.15. At 4 a. m. there was a bright (2) yellowish band crossing up through. 

 Canes Venatici in the NE., then across through Ursa Major to Lyra near a Lyne, and a corona of 

 .streamers (brightness 1) reaching down about 40 from the zenith, incomplete from Ursa Major 

 and brightest in the XNW. Only this portion remained at 4.10, and the baud iu the north was 

 reduced in size and brightness. The whole was fading to traces at 4.15. At 5 a. m. there were 

 merely faint traces over the horizon from W. to S. At G a. m. a yellowish-green quiet baud 

 (brightness 1) extended from Andromeda through Aries and Gemini to Canis Minor. At 7 a yel- 

 lowish band (brightness 1 to 2) with streamers vibrating slowly from E. to W. stretched from 

 Pisces through Taurus and Orion to Canis Major. At 8 an arch (brightness 1 to 2) ran from 

 Cygnus through Cassiopeia and Auriga to Cancer, moving slowly towards the zenith. At 9.17 

 there was a broad, white, quiet band (brightness to 1) from Coma Berenices through Lynx and 

 Auriga to the Pleiades, and at 10.17 there was a broad, irregular, striated band, white and quiet 

 (brightness 1), from Corona Borealis through Ursa Major to Taurus. The magnetic needles were 

 unusually quiet all night, being slightly disturbed about 11 a. m. 



December 3, 1882, 4 a. m. to 12.30 p. m. The first traces of aurora were seen at 4 a. m. .shining 

 through the fog, in the form of the upper portion of a pale, regular, quiet arch in the SW., reaching 

 an altitude of about 45, and an arched streak in the NE. at an altitude of about 00. The sky 

 gradually became much clearer, and at 5 a. m. a yellowish-green band extended from Andromeda 

 through Aries and the Pleiades to Canis Minor (brightness 1). At (i a. m. there was a broad, yel- 

 lowish, quiet band (brightness 1 to 2) across the zenith from. Pegasus through Andromeda, 



