...whole passage. We thus prove a continuous chain of these phenomena from New Zealand to California. Permit me to call special attention to the very peculiar...observed elsewhere. It is hardly a conspicuous object. The long continuance and extending diffusion of this haze or dry fog seems to justify expectation that...

...seen around the sun in hazy skies over Hawaii on 5 September 1883 by the Reverend SE Bishop. He wrote: Permit me to call special attention to the very peculiar...have seen no notice of this corona observed elsewhere [to that date]. It is hardly a conspicuous object.1 Our drawing of Bishop's description is presented...

...Sereno Bishop, noticed a disc of luminous light, fringed with colour, encircling the Sun. The disc was 'of whitish haze with pinkish tint, shading off into lilac or purple against the blue'. The phenomenon became known as Bishop's Rings. These beautiful visions were the product of the volcanic...

...passage. We thus prove a continuous chain of these phenomena from New Zealand to California. I'ermit me to call special attention to the very peculiar...observed elsewhere. It is hardly a conspicuous object. The long continuance and extending diffusion of this haze or dry fog seems to justify expectation that...

...described by Mr. SE Bishop, at Honolulu, in NATURE (vol. xxix. p. 260, 1884, January 17):— As "a very peculiar corona or halo extending from 20' to...shading off into lilac or purple against the blue ... It is hardly a concircle scale, bent downwards into view from nearly oterbeai he sun's parting...

...260, 1884, January 17): — As ''a very peculiar corona or halo extending from 20° lo 30* Ггмт the sun, which has been visible every day with us,...shading off into lilac or purple against the blue ... It is hardly a conspicuous object." In the growing dusk, however, of an hour after sunset, the...