42 Prof. E. Loomis on the action of Electrical Currents^ 



Vol. XXX, p. 135. 1835, Dec. 11. Toronto, Canada. All these rays 

 moved in a very stately march from east to weat. 



Vol. XXX, p. 231. 1835, Sept. 4. New Haven, Conn. The streacRera 

 all moved to the east about 6°. Beams shot up about 30°" high, aad 

 moved laterally to the east. 



Vol. xxxii, p. 178. 1837, Jan. 25. New Haven. The twilight of 

 the northern sky moved slowly southward. 



Vol. xxxii, p. 221. 1836, Aug. 12. lb. Over head the arch moved 

 southward. In the east it also advanced southward. 



Vol. xxxii, p. 222. lb. Parallel fleeces, distinct from each other, 

 were in slow motion toward the west. 



Vol. xxxii, p. 225. 1836, May 8. New Haven. The arch advanced 

 southward. — The bow moved slowly south. — The arch had advanced 

 southward. 



Vol. xxxii, p. 394. 1836, May 8. Toronto, Canada. A shining broad 

 column of light passed very slowly and bodily to the Avestward. 



Vol. xxxiii, p. 212. 1837, July 29. Burlington, Vt. A luminous 

 arch moved slowly to the south. 



Vol. xxxiv, p. 275. 1837, Nov. 14. Geneva, N. Y. A bright white 

 streamer passed the north star, on its way to the west. 



Vol. xxxviii, p. 262. 1839, Sept. 3. Nashville, Tenn. A westward 

 motion was observed in three principal columns. 



Vol. xxxviii, p. 376. 1839, Sept. 3. Middlebury, Vt. The belt moved 

 south — rapidly at first, then more slowly. 



Vol. xxxix, p. 194. 1840, May 29. New Haven. The belt drifted 

 southward at the rate of about a degree per minute. 



Vol. iii, n. s., p. 440. 1847, April 7. New Haven. The auroral heU 

 moved southward from 77° above the N. horizon to 65° above the southern. 



Vol. xiii, n. s., p. 427. 1852, Feb. 19. New Haven. Streamers be- 

 gan to shoot upward, having a horizontal movement from K to W. 



Vol. xiv, n. s., p. 131. 1852, April 22. New Haven. The whole 

 beam slowly moved southward. 



Vol.xxviii, n.s., p. 391. 1859, Aug. 28. New Haven. Auroral arch 

 advanced 18° toward the south in fifteen minutes. 



Vol. xxviii, p. 394. 1859, Aug. 28, West Point, N. Y. A yellowish 

 cloud advanced southward with an even boundary. 



Vol. xxviii, p. 394. lb. The streamers in the north were numerous 

 and were perceived universally to move towards the west 



Vol. xxviii, p. 395. lb. The entire expanse of cloud in the south was 

 making a similar progress we^t, at the rate of forty degrees in about two 

 minutes. At 3 a. m, the streamers in the north moved across the con- 

 stellation Cassiopea from west to east, contrariwise to the motion in every 

 instance I have before observed in any aurora. 



Vol. xxviii, p. 396. lb. The southern streamers were also moving to 

 the east. 



Vol. xxviii, p. 404. 1859, Sept. 2. Havana, Cuba. The summit of 

 the arch had a movement of tranelation toward the east. A brightness 

 streamed from the north, moving towards the N.N.E. 



Vol. xxviii, p. 406, lb. Reiterated movement of translation of the 

 whole aurora from E. to W., followed by a retrocession in the opposite 

 direction. 



