362 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Dates of Phenomena. 

 And now for a word or two as to the dates of the first appearance of the 

 phenomena in the different places where observations have been made and 

 recorded. This enquiry is decidedly important, whether we associate the 

 phenomena with the eruption of Krakatoa or otherwise account for them by 

 a cause or causes terrestrial rather than cosmic. The following table gives 

 the dates of recorded observations in chronological order : — 



27th August. Sun obscured during day and set gorgeously at Sey- 

 chelles, and Eodriguez, and Diego Garcia. 

 28th August. Sun-glows at Mauritius, 3,000 miles from Krakatoa. 

 29th August. Sun dull and hke the moon at Seychelles. 

 30th August. Sun very hazy at Tokio in Japan, and in Brazil. 

 1st, 2nd September. Sun blue at Cape Coast Castle (7,000 miles 



away), then rose colour, then white. 

 1st, 2nd September. Sun green at Barinas in Venezuela (12,000 



miles away), previously like burnished silver. 

 1st, 2nd September. Sun-glows at New Ireland. 

 4th September. Sun green at Fanning' s Isle. 

 5th September. Sun-glows at Honolulu. 

 8th September. Sun-glows in Ceylon. 



9th September. Sun green and blue in India, Ceylon (Trincomalee). 

 15th September. Sun-glows in South Australia, and Nelson, New 



Zealand. 

 18th September. Sun-glows in Wellington, New Zealand. 

 20th September. Sun-glows at Cape of Good Hope. 

 2nd October. Sun-glows in Victoria. 

 5th October. Sun-glows at Honolulu and Valparaiso. 

 8th October. Sun-glows in Florida. 

 19th October. Sun-glows at Yuma (California). 

 30th October. Sun-glows in United States. 

 8th November. Sun-glows in England and California. 

 20th November. Sun-glows in Turkey. 

 23rd November. Sun-glows in Iceland. 

 27th September. Sun-glows nearly everywhere, and on this evening 



the grandest display of all in the Old World. 



— December. Sun-glows in North China. 



I regret exceedingly that I cannot supplement this list by giving the 



precise dates of the first appearance of the sun-glows in Nelson. I made 



certain notes in my diary, but they are not sufficiently conclusive. Perhaps 



some one present can and will kindly help me in this respect. I neither 



