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Nature, 20-291: The Gulf of Oman is at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. Jour. Roy. Met. Soc., 33-294: Extract from a letter by Mr. S. C. Patterson, second officer of the P. and O. steamship Delta: a spectacle which the Journal continues to call phosphorescent: Malacca Strait, 2 A.M., March 14, 1907: "... shafts which seemed to move round a center--like the spokes of a wheel--and appeared to be about 300 yards long." The phenomenon lasted about half an hour, during which time the ship had traveled six or seven miles. It stopped suddenly." L'Astronomie, 1891-312: A correspondent writes that, in October, 1891, in the China Sea, he had seen shafts or lances of light that had had the appearance of rays of a searchlight, and that had moved like such rays. Report to the Admiralty by Capt. Evans, the Hydrographer of the British Navy: That Commander J. E. Pringle, of H.M.S. Vulture, had reported that, at Lat. 26 degrees 26' N., and Long. 53 degrees 11' E--in the Persian Gulf--May 15, 1879, he had noticed luminous waves or pulsations in the water, moving at great speed. This time we have a definite datum upon origin somewhere below the surface. It is said that these waves of light passed under the Vulture. "On looking toward the east, the appearance was that of a revolving wheel with a center on that bearing, and whose spokes were illuminated, and, looking toward the west, a similar wheel appeared to be revolving, but in the opposite