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Dr. Hare also made some remarks on the aurora which oc- 

 curred on the third of September, in which he suggested that 

 the electric fluid, producing the phenomena then observed, 

 might have been derived from remote parts of space. 



Stated Meeting, October 18. 

 Present, thirty-one members. 

 Mr. Du Ponceatj, President, in the Chair. 

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are represented as competent to perform a most important part in the produc- 

 tion of electrical storms ; nor did he feel at liberty to make any remarks in 

 support of an opinion which he had recently formed, that a hurricane is a gi- 

 gantic tornado. Neither had he time to cite the evidence furnished by Reid's 

 work upon storms, in favour of a local force or gyration, like that of which he 

 had seen proofs, arising from the New Haven tornado. 



