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that I have given it will be seen that at Adelaide (South Australia), which 
is in 35°, the first marked appearance of the sun-glow was on the 15th 
September. In Victoria, which is only situated a few degrees nearer the 
tropics than Nelson, the glows did not appear, it seems, till the 2nd Oe- 
tober. 
To supplement the information given by the above table, I must proceed 
to say that the displays have continued since their first appearance inter- 
mittently up to the present time. The last ones in the old world of which 
I find any record in * Nature," were, one observed by Professor Reilley, I 
presume in Dublin, on the 11th June, another on the 22nd June in Dalston, 
and a third on the 7th July noted by B. J. Hopkins. The displays con- 
tinued in Nelson without any intermission during the first few months of 
the present year. I have made memoranda of very striking ones on the 
18th March, 14th April, and 5th May. Since the last-mentioned date, I 
cannot positively say that there have been no sun-glows here in Nelson, for 
I noticed something very like one even so recently as the 22nd of last 
month, and again on the 23rd when a faint after-glow was clearly visible 
for an hour after sunset ; but I have not seen anything at all extraordinary 
in the sunsets since the 5th May. Concerning the latest appearances in 
distant parts of the world, there has scarcely yet been time to collect par- 
ticulars and records of observations. To judge from a letter in “ Nature," 
there appears to have been in England in June and July a return of the 
phenomenon. Be it observed, in no place do the glows seem to have been 
continuous. Everywhere there were days, even weeks, when none were 
observed at all. Cloudy weather and other meteorological conditions would 
account for this in part, but not entirely. In the month of November, there 
seems to have been a curious intermission, lasting three weeks, even in 
places so distant from one another as England, Honolulu, and the United 
States. Two or three days prior to the Sunda eruptions, Moncure Conway 
reports that he saw the sun steel-blue during the daytime, and green 
towards setting. This observation, reported by Mr. Ellery to the Royal 
Society of Melbourne on the 18th December, seems to be somewhat singular. 
In leaving this part of my subject, I would point out :— 
1. That the earliest places to get the sun-glows and the coloured sun 
and moon were within the tropics, and as a rule, near to the Straits of 
Sunda, 
2. That the appearances commenced on the very day following the 
Krakatoa catastrophe, with the exception of the one reported by Moneure 
Conway, about the date of which there may be some slight mistake. 
9. That all the places which witnessed the phenomena before the 8th 
September, are situated within 15 degrees of the equator. 
