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bands (brightness 1 to 2), one from Pegasus llirongh Aries and Taurus to Gemini, and the other 

 through Pegasus, Cygmis, Draco, and Canes Yenatici to Coma IJereniccs. At 7 a. in. a yellowish- 

 while arch (brightness 2) rapidly waving, extended from Andromeda through Cassiopeia, Camclo- 

 pardalis, and Ursa Major to Leo Minor and Coma Berenices. At 8 there was a faint (0 to 1) band 

 low in the SK., through Cetus, Taurus, Orion, and Monoccros. At 0.17 there was a broad white 

 quiet band in the SW. horizon from WE. to KNW., and faint parallel bands running SE. and NW. 

 covering the sky from the SW. horizon to the zenith. The aurora was essentially unchanged at 

 10.17. At 11.10 the band on the border of the horixon had disappeared and the other bands now 

 running E. and "\V. had grown fainter. They were reduced to mere traces at 11.17. Faint traces 

 of similar bands across the zenith were visible at 12.10 p. in. There was a slight disturbance at 

 a. in., chiefly affecting the horizontal force. 



December !.">, 18S2, 1.12 a. m. to 12.15 p. m. More or less pale glow and very faintly luminous 

 haze was noticed earlier, but no definite aurora till 1.15, when there were traces of faint streamers 

 in the NE., in Cancer and Cauis Minor. At 3.15 there was a faint luminous band extending from 

 Canis Minor, through Gemini to Lynx, and a, faint baud of motionless streamers through Lyra, 

 Hercules, Draco, and Ursa Major to Canes Yenatici (brightness to 1). At 4.15 there was a quiet 

 yellowish arch from Leo through Lynx, Camelopardalis to Perseus and to Triangulum. At 5.15 

 traces only were visible. At 0.17 traces of a band running SE. and NW. were visible through the 

 clouds. At 10.15 there was a white, quiet arch (brightness to 1) spanning the SW. horixon from 

 SE. to X W., with an altitude of about 10, and also a few bright (0 to 2) streamers in the KE. At 

 12.12 p. m. (here were traces of a band running from Taurus to Bootes, between Gemini and Auriga, 

 and traces of patches near the northern horizon. The needles were quiet till 12 m., when the hori- 

 zontal force began to fall, going very low between 3 and 4 p. m., and then gradually rising, the 

 other two elements meanwhile reading slightly higher. 



December 15 and 1C, 1SS2, S.10 p. m. to 2.45^. m. At about 3 p. in. of the local day, while the 

 sky was still quite light, there appeared stretching across the zenith from SE. to NW. a broad 

 hazy band running through Pegasus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Ursa Minor, and Ursa 

 Major. Its color was a deep, clear crimson, paling somewhat toward the extremities. It was 

 brightest in Cassiopeia and then faded and became brightest in Ursa Major (brightness 1 to 2), 

 but was wholly gone in about 15 minutes. At 0.15 ruddy streamers, particularly rosy in the, 

 N. and S., filled the whole eastern half of the sky centering in Cepheus. These also soon dis- 

 appeared. At 10.15 they had reappeared as before with some additional streamers on the west, 

 forming a cape round the zenith. These showed rapid motion shooting from the zenith, and 

 faded ,50011. At 11.15 there was simply a belt of streamers showing only a faint rosy tint across 

 the eastern sky from Bootes to the Pleiades and Perseus. At 12.15 a band (brightness 1) bearing 

 short streamers at intervals passed through Orion, Gemini, Lynx, Ursa Major, and Canes Venatici 

 across the NE. sky. There were streamers in Bootes and one long one i'roni Corona Borealis, 

 through Cepheus and Draco. Nearly the whole sky was covered at 1 a. m. In the NE. were three 

 bands of streamers from NNW. to ESE., the highest passing a little east of the zenith, breaking 

 in on the corona which centered near Polaris, its streamers reaching down to Cygnus and Lyra, 

 and forming curtains in the W. which reached down nearly to Pegasus. The brightest was 1 to 

 2, constantly changing while the band and streamers shifted, continually twisting and waving 

 slowly. At 1.15 the corona was mostly east of the zenith and the western aurora had assumed 

 the form of a broad zone from Orion to Hercules, the highest part taking in Cassiopeia, Androme- 

 da, and part of Pegasus. When the light reached a brightness of 2 it was tinged with green 

 and rose. At 2 a. in. it was all west of the zenith in a broad zone of three main bands from Orion 

 in the SE. to Serpcus in the NW., the highest through Andromeda and the lowest below the 

 square of Pegasus. These bauds were made up of streamers flickering rapidly from the W. to E. 

 At 2.15 there were four bands in the cast, the highest extending along from Canis Minor to Orion 

 and converging in the N. The lowest passed through Gemini and Ursa Major while the rest filled 

 the eastern sky nearly to the zenith, when they were succeeded by a broad zone with the same 

 origin as at 2 a. m., passing through Cassiopeia. The color was greenish, with tinges of rose 

 (brightness 2 to 3), and they shifted and waved slowly. At 3 a. m. the main body of the aurora was 

 in essentially the same position but had paled to 1, was somewhat more diffused, with a convoluted 



