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12.15 there were two parallel bands of curtains from (lie NW. to ESE., through Cancer, Leo, Leo 

 Elinor, Canes Yeiiatiei. Ursa Major, liu'itcs. Corona Horealis, and Hercules, moving but slightly 

 (brightness 1 to 2). At 1 a. in. nearly the whole astern sky was covered with aurora (brightness 

 2). A bn;id sinuous baud ran from near / Hydra- in the KSE. to Cygnus in the NNW., through 

 Leo, Leo Minor, Caiu-s Yenatici, I'rsa Major, Draco. Hercules, and Lyra, while above this were, 

 three series of broad indistinct curtains radiating from the zeuith and not reaching west of ( leiniiii 

 and Cassiopeia. At 1.1.~i The curtains were fading, leaving the bauds which were slightly tinged 

 with green and rose in the ESE. At 2 a. m. then- was a broad, somewhat sinuous baud (bright- 

 n. -ss 2) iii the NE., from the NNW. in Hercules to the ESE in Hydra, through Corona Borealis, 

 Canes Yeiiatici, Ursa Major, and Leo (>' and 0), with traces of a streak through Cassiopeia and 

 (iemini. At 2.15 there were also partial coronal siivaniers (brightness 1) occupying Leo, Leo 

 Minor, Ursa Major. I rs:. Minor, Draco. Cepheus, Cyguus, and Cassiopeia, centering towards 

 Pol-iris, with pale bands branching off from the ESE. in Gemini. At 3 and 3.15 there was a 

 narrow, rather regular arch (brightness 1 to 2) in the NE. from the ESE., low ill Leo to the, NNW. 

 in 1 lercides, through Yirgo, Coma Berenices, ". IJootis. ( 'oroiui Borealis, and Serpens, with a streak 

 (brightness to 1 '; E. by S. from Leo up into (iemiui. There were only faint traces at 4, but at 

 4.1.") these Iiad developed into two bands (brightness to 1) starting, respectively, NNW. and NW., 

 one through Cygnus and the other through Pegasus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, faintly visible 

 as far as Leo. At 5.15 a quiet band (brightness 1) ran from Hydra through Canis .Minor, Orion, 

 and Taurus to Cetus. Faint traces were observed at (i.15 and 7.15 a. m. No more was seen till 

 11.15 when a broad, diffuse, quiet arch brightness to 1) ran from the ESE. to tin- \VNW., 

 through Corona Borealis, Ursa Major, and Gemini. The last faint traces were seen in the ESE. at 

 12.15 p. in. The horizontal force was unusually high from about an hour before the beginning of 

 the aurora, but returned to iis ordinary reading at about 3 a. m., remaining undisturbed till 1 

 p. m., when then. 1 was a slight disturbance for a couple of hours, the horizontal force falling and 

 the declination rising. The vertical intensity was rather high all day. 



January 2S and 20, 1SS.",, KU5y). ID. to 12.15 />. ID. There was a faint streak in the NE. at 

 10.15 j). in., and faint traces were again visible in the, ENE. at 11.10 and in the NW. again at 12 

 midnight. There wer.- traces in the N. and E. at 1 a. m., which had developed at 1.15 into a 

 slightly sinuous arched baud (brightness 1) from the NNW. in Hercules to the ESE. in Hydra, 

 through Corona P>on>alis (./.), Bootes (;), Coma Berenices, and Leo (ft). At 2 a.m. the arch was iu 

 the same position, but had faded to brightness to 1, and there \vas a second similar arch a little 

 above, it, passing through Canes Yenatici and ft Boiitis. This had faded to traces at 2.15. At 

 3 therp were two bands (brightness to 1), beginning in nearly the same place in Hydra, but 

 fading in Coma P>ereinees. with a trace also in the N. This developed at 3.15 into a somewhat 

 sinuous band (brightness 1 1 from ESE. in. Hydra to the NNW. iu Vulpecula, through Leo (0), ' 'oina 

 Berenices, Canes Yenatici (a), P.oote,s, Draco (,'? and ?), and Cygnus close to it. At 4 a. in. a fes- 

 tooned band (brightness 1 to 2) started from nearly the same point in the NNW., and passed 

 through Cygiius, Draco. Bootes. Canes Yeuatiei, Coma Berenices, and Leo, the ESE. iu Yirgo. 

 This had become straighter at 4.15, and from the ESE. end came curved radiating streamers 

 through Leo. Leo Minor, and I'rsa Major, all slowly shifting. At 5.15 there were only traces iu 

 the NE., and no more was seen till 7.15, when there was a quiet, yellowish band (brightness 1) 

 from Aries through Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Lacerta, Cygnus, and Lyra to Hercules. A fainter 

 baud (brightness (I to 1) at S.l.s ran from Taurus through Orion, Gemini, Cancer, and Leo to Yirgo. 

 At 0.15 a broad, pale, quiet arch extended from the ESE. to WNW. with its crown at an altitude, 

 of about 18, and above it a second similar arch from the same starting points, through Corona 

 Borealis, Ursa Major, and Gemini. There was also an irregular arch of quiet streamers from the, 

 E. to NW. through Cygnus, Lacerta, Andromeda, Perseus, and the Pleiades. At 10.15 there was 

 a broad, quiet arch (brightness to 1) from the ESE. to the WNW., with its crown at an altitude 

 <:f 20, with a similar arch from Hercules through Corona Borealis, Canes Yenatici. Leo .Minor, 

 Cancer, and Cauis Minor. No more was observed till 12.15 p. m., when there was a broad, quiet 

 white band (brightness to 1) from the, ESE. to the WNW. through ihe xeiiith. and from Polaris 

 to the lower extremity of Ursa Major. The needles were unusually quiet all night though there 

 was a slight disturbance at 1) a. in. 



