Show ax AURORAS AS OF 1112 tho thia florind it t ii liany lil piny ny of f tile the V aull 11 1 l ji anicia the mouths it of june and jely VW ill long ions b by its baving three lisp liy one of it them lielia li elii of unrivaled splendor and intensity itY two of the three which he con coa siders acidera unique if no ui isor lewis salt of li varnel observatory dc si I 1 rs follows it in science clence oa alt alie chiv ci chelc elc arg of cure jacc llant hi ant lore midnight turning my eye front from the lele scope bright narrow beam of if light wa neen been extending front the western horizon to nn an clevn elevi lion aton of boid anzi at al I 1 lis abt ul gic to the ibe meri elian ind cl c conre parallel vilh its ci I 1 bere iere it lii ilal into lix fis parallel baud 4 or br airs nuchen nc boi like six gigel itic of ln am 0 hand fig I 1 after acter at visibility of about twenty nn illi it boily bowly lo ily di appended mirml ant aal obb ered dur dui ing that edithe highl 3 hicl 1 N S TI DISPLAYS ag tin at en aly twilight on tho the evening of july 10 it irti oi of a faint baij some I 1 dep deys in wim just south of alpha aquillia Aquil Ai luilla lii lievin on the south two mid on ane north one short narrow band ba id close to though not trilling touching the principal I 1 one this being EO bet far south was of ilela itself tin HU uncommon occurrence and as twilight deepened into night it ii slender baem dot cot exceeding 15 deg in width issued from thell the western end cad and rid gradually lengthened curving currins to the southwest and south until like a mighty sickle the baud band serving tor for a handle and the iho curved ray for its cutting blade it reci reach icil Lil nearly to the southwestern horizon barizon fig 2 it lasted about si a half hour groN growing ving brighter bright erand and longer tm twilight I 1 agh lit increased vi b hen en I 1 it t q quite u 1 t is sud suddenly 1 I benl enl y d disappeared Is immediately lifter after it a rosy cloud and tinted d streamer stream cr crt appeared in the northwest iud and the grandest display of the century commenced A perfect exhibition consists of lit at least ten distinct phenomena it is very seldom however thit that all ore or eien en a irabor ity ily of the requisites uro tire present tit at any one oa dipley dip liy they tire are lacre named in the order of their most usual appearance 1 evenly diffused light in the north 2 A dark arch whose apex is in the magnetic meridian 3 streamers 4 luminous patches especially in the tha north northwest west sometimes of a rel red color often for a long longtime time stationary tation ary S colored patches and streamers 6 merry dancers ersi 7 corona in the magnetic meridian in and equator the point where the streamers 11 by ire to converge 8 stream N era inning south from the tha coroni corona occasionally extending to near the southern hot hoi izon 9 curtain with trilled frilled wavy ed edges cs apparently suspended from 10 narrow luminous lumino bunds bands often reaching froni from the tha eastern to the western horizon always alway sat at a right angle ange to the magnetic meridian but seldom if ever coincident with its equator As ken en by professor swift and others with hini him all of the foregoing features were simultaneously visible |