418 EXPEDITION TO POINT BAK1IOW, ALASKA. 



(brightness to 1) ran through Cygnus. Lyra, 1 >raco, Corona Borealis, Bootes. ( 'oma Berenices, and 

 At i.t5 a similar baud (brightness J) ran through Cygnus, Lyra. Hercules, Bootes, and Virgo. 

 At 7 there were merely traces on the northern horizon. At S a quiet double band (bright ness 

 id i ' crossed i'roni Ursa Major and Leo to Auriga and I'erscus. At !M5 there were I'aint traces 

 near the zenith and in the ESE. and NW. At 10.15 a. in. a white, quiet arch (brightness 1) ran 

 I'roni the KSK. to the WNW., with its crown at an altitude of about 15, while there were also long, 

 quiet streamers in the K.. passing through Corona Borealis. Draco, Hercules, and Lyra, with a. 

 luminous bar from Lyra through C'ygnns. Cepheus. and Cassiopeia. At 1 1.1.") there was a zone of 

 broad bands (brightness (I to 1), with its starting-points ESE. and NNW.. reaching in breadth from 

 Bootes to the xenith. At L'. 15 there was a broad, quiet, white, and diffuse arch from ESE. to AYNW. 

 There were aNo streamers in the ESE., E., and ENE., in Sagitta. Lyra, Aquila, Delphinus, Vnl- 

 peenla, Cygnus. Pegasus, and Lacerta. The last faint traces were seen in the K. near Aquila and 

 near the /enitii. The needles were slightly disturbed at 3 and 1 a. in. with high horizontal force, 

 and from 8 a. in. to 3 p. in. there was a considerable, disturbance, reaching its maximum at 11 a. in. 



January -0 and 21, 1883. 11.15^;. m. to 11.1.1 a. in. The aurora began at 11.13 p. m. as a faint 

 streak in the NIC. through Ursa Major, Lynx, and Gemini. At 12.15 a. in. there was a zone of two 

 bands with its starting points W. by N. and E. by S., and passing, one through Canis Minor, 

 Auriga, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Lyra, and Hercules, the other through Canis Minor. Ursa Minor, 

 Draco, and Hercules (brightness 1 to 2). It was brightest in the W. where the bands assumed the 

 curtain form. At I a. m. there was a narrow, arched belt of three bauds (brightness I ) from 

 Jlercnles NNW., starting at an altitude of about 13 to near the horizon ESE. in Hydra, through 

 Corona Borealis. I >raco, Bootes. Ursa Ma.jor (A), and Canes Venal ici (above ), Leo Minor, Leo, and 

 Cancer. At 1.15 it was a little brighter in the NNW., twisted and spreading into Lyra. At 2 a. in. 

 there was a broad, hazy, indefinite /.one (brightness to 1). The starting-points were KSK. in 

 Hydra and NNW. in Aquila, and it extended in breadth from s Ursa: Majoris to < 'assiopeia (near f). 

 At 2.15 it was brighter on the edges and spread farther west (into Perseus). At 3 there was a 

 narrow xone (brightness 1) west of the zenith. The starting points were SE. in Hydra and NNW. 

 in Aquila. stretching in breadth from close to Polaris to <> Arietis. At 3.15 it was much brighter 

 (brightness 1 to 2) and had drifted W..so that the eastern edge passed through Cassiopeia, and the 

 western took in n Orionis and Tauri. At -1, three or four bands, broad and sinuous (brightness 1 

 to 2), started from Pegasus in the NW., going straight up for about 15~, and then bending round 

 through Cygnus, Lyra,Hereules, Draco, Corona Borealis, and Bootes (<r Boo'tis). At 4.15 twisted 

 streaks (brightness 2) forming a narrow xone from Pegasus NW.. through Andromeda. Perseus, 

 Auriga, ( iemini, Cancer, and Canis Minor, ending in Hydra ESE., with considerable waving motion 

 near the zenith. At 5.15 a band (brightness 1) ran through Andromeda. Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra, and 

 Hercules. At 0.15 a quiet band (brightness to 1) stretched from Pegasus through Vulpecula and 

 HercuU's to Bootes. At 7.15 a xone (brightness 1 to 2) crossed the zenith with its starting-points 

 N\V. and SSE.. in Aries, Andromeda, Leo, and Canes Yenatici. It reached SAV. to (iemini and 

 Auriga, and NE. to Corona Borealis and Lyra, where it had a few bands of streamers in rapid, 

 waving motion (brightness 1 to 2i. At 8.15 a. in. there were faint traces in the X. Traces appeared 

 again in the E. at !>.15 a. m. and at 11.15 in the SK. The magnets began to be agitated about 3 

 a. in. and were not quiet again till 2 p. in., the disturbance reaching its maximum about 7 a. in. 



Jiunmnj 22, 18S3, 0.15 n. in. in 11 a. HI. No aurora was seen till <.15 a. m. (about I a. in. local 

 time), when a band passed from Pegasus through Triangulum, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Ccpheus, 

 Draco, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Bootes, and Coma Berenices to Leo, and Leo Mi:: ;. with bright 

 green and yellow streamers in Cassiopeia, < 'opheus, and D.'aco. vibrating rapidly from SW. to NE., 

 and pale Mi-earners waving slowly in HE. (brightness 1 to 2). At 7.15 there was a quiet bai:d 

 (brightness (I to 1) from Pegasus through Lyra. Hercules, and Corona Borealis to Bowles. Tracer 

 were observed remaining in the N. at 8.15, in the ESE. at 10.15. and in the E. at 11 a. m. The 

 magnets were somewhat disturbed from (! to S a. in., and there was a slight disturbance from 1 to 

 4 p. m. 



.linnitir.i 21, 1.S.S3, !l.|5 <i. in. to 1.17 p. HI. Most of the night was cloudy, but at 0.15 a. in. and 

 ut 1.17 p. in. traces of aurora were observed among the clouds. 



January 25, 3 a. m. to 1.5it;>. >n. Early in the evening there were indefinite streaks in the, 



