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of Edinburgh, Session 1885 - 86 . 
rainbow, radius 26°, colours if any very faint. Lunar fog bow a 
23 h . Too large to measure. 
Dee. 18, 1883. — Badly defined corona at 6 h , red outside. Badius 
of red about 2°. 
Dec. 23, 1883. — At 12 h 30 m reddisli hue round sun; radius 
about 7° or 8°. At 15 h 10 m sun sank into cloud bank. As it went 
down semicircle of colours formed over edge of cloud bank; red 
outside, like badly-defined corona. Sky above covered with de- 
tached stratus clouds, and not coloured at all. 
Dec. 25, 1883. — Fleeting, badly defined glories seen all after- 
noon on fog in northern valley. Bed always outside. 
Jan. 3, 1884. — At 17 h 35 m , lunar halo, white, very faint. 
Diameter 17° (sic). 
Jan. 15, 1884. — At l h lunar corona seen. Distinct orange ring, 
2° 30' radius, inside of which is the true corona, with Ked or 
blue next moon. Outside orange ring a bluish green Orange 
space edged with red or orange rim. This space did green 
not look like a second corona ; the colour was too uni- Orange 
form. Badius of outer red ring, 5°. This green in 
the outer ring strongly resembled the green tints seen in the recent 
sunsets. At 2 h the moon was surrounded by a very faint corona 
entirely blue. 
Bed inside. 
Faint red 
Bluish 
Red 
Note . — This was found afterwards to be a common type of 
corona. 
March 4, 1884. — At 10 h 50 m , solar halo observed. 
Colours very faint; approximate radius = 22°. At 
20 h lunar halo observed, white, very faint ; approxi- 
mate radius, 23° 45'. At 21 h corona observed. Double. D 
Usual colours out to first red ring; then bluish annular space tinged 
with red outside. Badius of first red, 2° ; radius of second red, 4°. 
April 7, 1884. — At 3 h lunar halo observed; not well defined, 
white. Badius by stef., 22° to 23°. 
April 8, 1884. — At 23 h blue lunar corona observed. Faint red 
Badius (of red) about 4° 25'. Same corona seen till 3 h ^ 
on April 9. 
April 10, 1884. — At 2 h lunar corona observed. Inner Red 
space blue ; then green ring, and red ring outside all. Blue 
Badius of red, 4° 15'. ]) 
