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on top and in the lower layers of the ice mass, and had 
subsequently floated when the greater amount of this 
material had weathered out. 
Have arranged to go to C. Royds to-morrow. 
The temperatures have sunk very steadily this year ; 
for a long time they hung about zero, then for a consider- 
able interval remained about -io° ; now they are down 
in the - 2o's, with signs of falling (to-day -24 0 ). 
Bowers' meteorological stations have been amusingly 
named Archibald, Bertram, Clarence— they are entered 
by the initial letter, but spoken of by full title. 
To-night we had a glorious auroral display — quite the 
most brilliant I have seen. At one time the sky from 
N.N.W. to S.S.E. as high as the zenith was massed with 
arches, band, and curtains, always in rapid movement. 
The waving curtains were especially fascinating — a wave 
of bright light would start at one end and run along to 
the other, or a patch of brighter light would spread as if 
to reinforce the failing light of the curtain. 
Auroral Notes 
The auroral light is of a palish green colour, but we 
now see distinctly a red flush preceding the motion of 
any bright part. 
The green ghostly light seems suddenly to spring to 
life with rosy blushes. There is infinite suggestion in 
this phenomenon, and in that lies its charm ; the sugges- 
tion of life, form, colour, and movement never less than 
