ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 17 
therefore copy the following from an anonymous writer in the 
Herald :—‘‘I have observed the sun to set in a cloudless sky, 
coloured orange yellow ; the daylight seems to decrease for fifteen 
or twenty minutes after sunset, when I observe a whitish oval patch 
of light, at an altitude of 20° to 30° ; this rapidly changes in colour, 
becoming yellowish purple, pink, brick red, and crimson ; the 
coloured patch of light at the same time elongates and settles 
rapidly down on to the horizon, this phase ending about forty-five 
minutes after sunset. A second purplish patch now appears, at 
about 30° altitude, the horizon turning to a brown colour: this 
second patch is more widely diffused and its boundaries are more 
ill-defined than the first one; it changes to yellowish purple, 
yellowish red, brick red, and crimson, spreading in azimuth, and 
settles down on the horizon in about 100 minutes after sunset, 
when the last tinge of colour disappears.” My friend Mr. Comrie 
has supplied me (under date March 10) with some observations 
made by him at Northfield, Kurrajong Heights, about 1,870 feet 
above the sea :—“We first noticed them here the first week 
in September. They were not always red, but sometimes pink, 
deeper or lighter crimson, golden yellow, peculiarly bright, having 
the power of lighting up everything brilliantly, and often a deep 
rich orange. I have been watching them for months, and, although 
they have lost something in brilliancy, they are still (March 10) 
to be seen. We have also seen the bright red glow that precedes 
the sunrise, and have heard from others who have watched the 
morning glows more than I have been able to do, that they were 
at first finer, richer, and more extensive than the evening ones. A 
special feature of the evening glow is its not appearing till after 
the sunset glow has passed away and the evening shadows begin 
to fall. Then the objects on the lawn begin to lose their indis- 
tinctness, a sudden brightness envelopes them, and they stand out 
clear and distinct, clothed with a golden radiance which seems 
reflected everywhere, and for five or ten minutes the whole lawn 
is lighted up and glows like a fairy bower, when as suddenly as it 
came up in the heavens the glow passes away, and everything is 
speedily shrouded in darkness.” 
