October pk, i8g8.'\ Proceedings. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 4th, 1898. 

 James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



It was announced that, during the recess, the Society had 

 lost by death four ordinary members : — Mr. H. M. Ormerod, 

 F.G.S., Dr. R. M. Pankhmst, Dr. James Rhodes, and Mr. John 

 Wright ; and three honorary members : — Professor Ferdinand 

 Cohn, Lord Playfair, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Mr. Osbert Salvin, 

 F.R.S. 



Mr. Tristram remarked on a phenomenon which he 

 observed in a bright sky and near the zenith, on Wednesday, 

 September 28th. The appearance might be described as a 

 double fragment of rainbow, the two parts resembling somewhat 

 the script letter x, one part being a short arc of a circle, 

 having the sun as centre, the reversed part touching it. The 

 colours were distinct but not bright, and the two parts were 

 about equal both in size and brightness. The phenomenon was 

 observed during several hours both before and after noon, and 

 the effect seemed to be produced upon some exceedingly light 

 and elevated clouds. It gradually faded as the sun drew near 

 the horizon. 



