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luted bands (brightness 1 to 2), and yellow, from Hercules to Leo in the 1C., the brightest through 

 Ursa Major and the lowest close to the Iiori/on. There was a slight magnetic disturbance. At .". 

 a. in. a somewhat sinuous arched band (brightness 1 to 2) extended from u point in Hercules in 

 NXYV., through Lyra, Draco, Bodies, Canes Vcnatici, Ursa Major, Leo Minor, ami Leo, ending in 

 the clouds in the V.. At .'5.15 it was slightly higher and was developing into a /one of several 

 bands. At 4 a. in. there was a regular narrow arch (brightness 1) from a Lyr;;- to /, Leonis, th<' 

 crown passing close to if Ur.se Minoris, and a broad, hazy baud (brightness 1) in the XW., through 

 Cygnus, Cepheiis, Draco, and Ursa Minor, ending in Camclopardalis. The whole had faded to 

 traces at 4.1."). 5 a. in. showed only faint traces in the XE., and traces \\riv also observed at 10.10 

 and 12.10 p. in. At 1.12 p. in. there- was a quiet yellowish and white band from Gemini through 

 Ursa Minor and Cygnus, and a few streamers through Laccrta (brightness to 1). The last faint 

 traces were seen at 2 p. m. in Cassiopeia and Lacerta. .Besides the disturbance already mentioned 

 there was slight disturbance at 8, 9, and 11 a. in. 



Dirvmlif 24, 1882, 1.15 a. m. io 10.10 a. m. At 1.15 there was a hazy baud (brightness to 1) 

 from Hercules through Corona Borealis, Bootes, Ursa Major, Lynx, and Gemini, quickly fading and 

 appearing again. It was invisible at 2; but well developed at -Mo, and passing through the same 

 constellations in the, X., but a little higher, and through Cancer instead of Gemini to Canis Minor. 

 At .'! there w,!s a ha/y band (brightness to 1) up through Cyguus in tho XW., Ccphens, Cassiopeia, 

 and Perseus, ending in Auriga, and a, trace in Monoeeros in the ESE. At .'5.15 the whole was very 

 faint and the main band had risen a degree or two. At 4 there was a broad, rather hazy belt in 

 the XE. (brightness 1) from Bootes to Leo, and a quiet, regular arch in the SW. from the lower 

 part of Pegasus to Orion's Belt. This arch still remained at 4,15, but the eastern belt had faded 

 to a trace. Across the /enitli, from Cyguus to Auriga, was a broad, convoluted band, with consid- 

 erable writhing and twisting motion. There was a slight magnetic disturbance. At 5 a. m. there 

 were faint, motionless bands, yellowish green (brightness 1), from Orion, through Canis Minor, to 

 Leo, and from Leo to Ursa Ma.jor and to Draco, and from Draco, through Cygnus, Lacerta, and 

 Andromeda, to Pisces. Traces were seen at S and again at 10.10 a. m. In addition to the disturb- 

 ance already mentioned there was quite a considerable one from 8 to 11 a. m. 



l>'t-">nlr i.'."), 1882, 2 u. m. io 2.15 a. m. Clouds covered the sky during the- greater part of tho 

 iiiglit, but at 2 a. m. they w ere- sufficiently thin and broken in the X. and XW. to show pale streaks 

 in the XW. streaming up towards the zenith. These, streaks were near n Lyra 1 , which was the only 

 star visible in that part of the heavens. At 2.15 there was a sinuous streak (brightness 1 to 2) 

 visible through the clouds from near the horizon in the XW. to a poiut about 10 west of the /enith, 

 where -it ended in the clouds. Xo more aurora, was seen. There was a slight magnetic disturb- 

 ance at 4 a. m. and again at 7 a. m. 



l)'<'inl>< > 20 unil 27, 1882, 10.15 p. m. to 0.10 it. m. There was a bunch of scarcely discernible 

 streamers in the XE. at 10.15, and at 11.15 a faint patch in Gemini. At 12.15 a. m. there was merely 

 a faint Hush in the XE. At I a. m. there was only a portion of a pale (0 to 1) arch lying low in 

 the XK. in Coma, Berenices and Leo, and at 1.15 there were also two or three shifting streamers of 

 the same brightness in Bootes and Corona Borealis. At 2 there was a sinuous band (brightness 1) 

 in the XK. from Cancer through Leo, Canes Venatici, Bootes, and Corona Borealis, ending in Her- 

 cules in the XNW. At 2.15 it was brighter (1 to 2), and a second band had developed above it 

 through Cancer, Leo, Leo Minor, Canes Venatici, Ursa Major, close to // Bodtis, Corona Borealis, 

 and Hercules. Streamers in Hercules stretched from the lower band through the upper. Tho 

 upper baud was observed to break gradually into short streamers, with considerable flickering from 

 the N. to y. There was also a hazy patch (brightness to 1) in Orion and Taurus. SSE. At 3 a. 

 in. a broad zone of the common type crossed from Canis Minor in the iSE. to Cygnus below /i Cygni 

 jn the N\V. The western edge, which was the brightest, ran through the head of Orion, Aries, 

 Taurus, TriaDgulum, and Andromeda, the top of 1'egasus and Yulpeeula, and the eastern, which 

 was very pale west of the zenith, through Gemini (inclosing rf GemiooruQl), Amiga, Canielopard- 

 alis. Ursa Minor, and Cepheus. At 3.1.5 it had condensed into a .single rather broad band in the 

 position of the western edge of the zone (bright in -ss 2 to '>), tinged on the upper edge with green 

 and with rose on the lower. This band was unchanged in position at 4, but was a little paler, and 

 the constellation had set through it a little. It had regained its former biightness at f.lTiand had 



