Abstract
THE rare phenomenon to which your two correspondents refer in their letters in your last issue (p. 494) was visible here at precisely the same time, and, viewed from Nottingham Forest, it presented a most interesting sight. It is curious that, as both the time and duration of the phenomenon coincide with its appearance here, its characteristics should be so dissimilar. It had more the appearance of a well-defined display of the aurora. Rays of light springing from the horizon penetrated high into the heavens, lasting about 10 or 15 seconds, and then disappeared, others taking their places. Its centre appeared to me to be almost due north, and, from notes made at the time, the beams or luminous rays reached an angle of about 50°, stars being visible through them. There was no arc visible of the character described by your correspondents, but vertical changing rays, several of which were distinctly orange-tinted.
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