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for taking vapor densities are fully described. 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Parhelia seen at Weld, Franklin Qo., Me.; by Sriumay Mas- 
TERMAN, (in a letter to the Editors).—Messrs. Editors aa send you the 
following account of a parhelion seen by myself, at this place on the 
21st instant, at 10h 45™ a, m. 
light haze was spread over the sky at the time, for the most part 
80 thin as to be scarcely visible, but at a few points coming out in lentic- 
ular patches of well-marked cirrus. When first noticed at the time 
above stated, the meteor presented the appearance delineated in the ac- 
companying drawing. e citcle 
A > was about 45° in diameter, 
having the sun in its centre ; and 
ola brilliant, having the colors 
the red next to the sun. It was 
surrounded by a bright corona of 
White, three or four degrees in 
* 
like AB and of a li ichtness. a? 
Concentric with A S vis oe "ome CD, being a little ros Pe ee 
» na diameter of 95°, colored like A with its red next to 
