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IV. — Note on Mr Quilter’s Photographs of Mirage. 
By The General Secretary. 
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
(vol. xxxviii, pp. 166-168), Mr Alexander G. Ramage described cases of 
mirage as seen on the Queensferry Road, near Edinburgh. Similar 
appearances have been since then observed and reported from different 
parts of the country, and the photographs of these by Mr G. F. Quilter, 
Ingatestone, are of some interest. Prints of five photographs taken by 
Mr Quilter were shown at the meeting of the Society held on 3rd November 
1919; four were taken at one place about 100 yards’ distance from where 
the dry road appeared to be a pooh The camera looked along the road in 
a direction E.N.E., the road rising slightly towards the position where the 
mirage was seen. The best photographs, which were taken on 15th June 
1919, at 1.30 p.m., showed certain posts on the north side of the road 
appearing distinctly reflected in the mirage pool. In the fifth photograph, 
taken at a different locality in August 1919, the shaded side of a telegraph 
post with neighbouring trees and a white-walled house beyond were 
distinctly seen as if reflected from a pool in the middle of the road. 
The main interest lies in the fact that the photographs bring out the 
phenomenon quite clearly. 
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