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was seen through a rift in the dark band aforesaid. A little 
further on the road we found that it had grown paler, the 
yellow tint replacing the red. The centre of this rosy film 
was about 50 degrees north of the point of sunset, and it 
spiead in length over some 30 degrees, and in height above 
the cloud-bank 12. ” Doubts were cast upon this beautiful 
sight being an Aurora Borealis, and the writer would suggest 
that it was a form of the zodiacal light produced by atmo- 
spheiic refraction, flhe fine lunar rainbows that have ap- 
peared during the past damp spring may have been remarked ; 
one was seen near Glasgow, at moonrise, on the 24th of 
February, that stretched from the eastern to the western 
horizon ; and a beautiful one was seen at about half-past 
eight on the 16th of April at this place, encircling the moon : 
the sunset had previously been remarkable, for no sooner 
was the luminary descended than a sheaf of rosy rays shot 
up like a bouquet of sky-rockets. 
Guildford, November 20, 1883. 
IV. BARON NORDENSKJ (ELD’S GREENLAND 
EXPEDITION.* 
By Count 0 . Reichenbach. 
ARON NORDENSKJ (ELD draws from his experi- 
ences some conclusions by which he renounces with- 
out necessity with the mistaken also the correct in 
his former expectations. My anticipations having proved 
right with regard to the leading questions, I beg him to re- 
consider his present views. I do this not from fondness for 
contradicting, but in the interest of a theory of the confi- 
guration of the Earth mostly contained in “ On some 
Properties of the Earth ” (London, 1880), where the passages 
quoted may be found on the pages here named. 
The Baron said in his programme, “ On the contrary, the 
following reflections seem to demonstrate that it is a physical 
impossibility that the whole of the interior of this extensive 
* “ Nature ” of May 10th, and 1st and 8th November, 1883. 
