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more than deluged in rain. August, which is usually the 
warmest month, experienced scarcely anything hut a con- 
stant downpour of the heaviest rain. October is usually 
the wettest month of the year, but this year August has 
frightfully eclipsed it. 
“A Curious Rainbow,” by E. W. Binney, F.KS., F.G.S. 
On the 23rd of November last, at 12.45 p.m., I was on 
Douglas Head, in the Isle of Man. The sky was pretty free 
from cloud, except a slight cirrus overhead, the cirri 
running from north to south, and the sun shining. Looking 
southwards I noticed an inverted rainbow in the cloud at 
at an angle of 75° with the horizon, making an arc of about 
80°. No other rainbow was visible at the time. I observed 
it for thirty minutes, when it gradually disappeared. The 
sea in the direction of the inverted rainbow would be about 
twelve miles distant. I did not observe that the colours 
were inverted as well as the bow, but a party who saw it 
stated that he distinctly noticed that they were. The 
accompanying rough sketch will show the form of the bow. 
