22 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
Early in September, probably about the end of the first week, 
we began to have the magnificent red skies at Sydney, 3,000 miles 
south-easterly from Krakatoa; and the same approximate date 
will answer for Melbourne and Adelaide. About the same date 
we have a record from Virginia, and a little later from the west 
coast of South America, both of which agree tolerably well with 
the record at Panama and Trinidad on September 2. At the 
Cape, 5,200 miles south-westerly, the first appearance was on 
September 20. Comparing Sydney and the Cape, we find the 
dispersion occurring simultaneously at about the same rate to the 
S.E. and S.W., but this rate is very much slower than the E. and 
W. dispersion. 
The next place in order of time for which I have a date 
is Sapporo, in the north of Japan, 3,800 miles N.E., where 
there was a red sun and fall of ashes on October 13. Santa 
Barbara, 8,000 miles E.N.E., October 14, although San Francisco, 
not far away, seems to have had nothing till November 23. 
On November 9 the red skies were first seen in England, about 
6,300 miles north-westerly, giving 85 miles per day of dispersion, 
although places much nearer Krakatoa on the same bearing were 
later. For instance, Constantinople, 1,300 miles nearer, gives 
November 20; Italy, November 25; Berlin, November 28 ; and 
Madrid (a little further away than England), about the same date. 
These cases do not at all correspond with the supposition of a 
dispersion from Krakatoa. November 23 is the date given at 
Iceland. On November 27 we have the first record from New 
York and the north-eastern States of America, 10,200 miles 
E.N.E. On that date we are told that the fire-engines were 
tuurned out at Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, under the impression 
that a great conflagration was goingon. This date is inconsistent 
with that from Virginia early in September. 
If we suppose that the dust travelled westward from England 
to New York, it would give us a rate of about 167 miles per day. 
If we try the eastward movement, we get a much slower rate 
from Honolulu (48 miles per day), although up to that point it 
