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found ; but by this mode of collecting the rain, an accurate 

 mode of estimating this is within our reach. 



To this branch, namely, an examination of solid and 

 gaseous matter brought in the rain from each direction, I hope, 

 on a future occasion, to find time to turn my attention to. 



Rev. H. Lloyd read an extract from a letter from Edward 

 W. Chetwode, Esq., describing a remarkable lunar halo and 

 paraselene, seen in the Queen's County, on the night of the 

 21st of May. 



" I send a rough sketch of what struck me last night as a 

 most beautiful and uncommon appearance, seen from our 

 hall-door at twelve o'clock : the moon, with cruciform rays, 

 surrounded by a halo ; two bright spots in directum with the 

 horizontal arm of the cross, on the periphery of the halo ; a 

 crescent light, not quite so intense as the horizontal spots, 

 also on the periphery, in directum with the perpendicular axis 

 of the cross ; and at a considerable distance above it (perhaps 

 the distance of halo-radius) another much larger crescent, 

 looking as if it were the base of another halo circle. The sky 

 had a good many of those electric sweepings of light through 

 it at the time. No doubt there was a fourth bright spot on 

 the halo, but it was hid by a dense mass of trees. The two 

 horizontal spots, which were very bright, had decided rainbow 

 colours, strongly marked." 



The second figure in the lithographic plate at the end of the 

 part represents the phenomenon described by Mr. Chetwode. 



The phenomenon was likewise seen in the neighbourhood 

 of Dublin, although not in so developed a form. The follow- 

 ing are the notes of its appearance, as observed at Sandy- 

 Cove, by Digby Starkey, Esq. 



"Ten minutes after eleven, p.m. Wind N.W, Mist 

 across the sky to the North, East, and South, in striae, as 

 represented above. The line passing through the moon, and 

 the eastern and western mock moons, dipped a little to the 



