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traced three times around the earth by irregularities in the trac- 
ings of self-registering barometers. 
Dr. Fuchs does not favor the idea that the wonderful sky-glows 
observed during the past winter were caused by dust from Kra- 
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yama 1783, of Temboro 1815, of Coseguina 1835, as well as 
Hekla 1845, Mauna Loa 1866, and Pochutla 1870. In no one of 
these cases,” he says, “ was a similar sky-glow observed.” It m 
Journal.* By seasons they are distributed as follows:—Winter 
56 (Dec. 21, Jan. 21, Feb. 14); Spring 66 (March 22, April 20, 
May 24); Summer 68 (June 20, July 29, Aug. 19); Autumn 73 
(Sept. 29, Oct. 30, Nov. 14). On 41 days there were shocks in 
quent in the island; and a real downfall or a collapse of a great 
cavity finds as little reason. The materials of the hill have only 
shifted hey again 
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the monograph of Professor A. Forster on the Berne Earthquake 
of Jan. 27, 1881 ; and that of Dz. R. Canayal on the Carinthian 
Earthquake of Nov. 5, 1881. GG KR - 
3. Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the 
pny of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81; by J. mn 
77 
WELL, Director. to, with numerous plates and fi 
s. Washington, 1884.—This volume is a worthy companion 
™ its subject matter and illustrations to its predecessor issued a 
gear. or he rapid progress which is bein 
* vol. xxvii, p. 358. } vol. xxvi, p. 473. 
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