_Farquharson's Observations on Auroræ._--A translation of the _Course of
Meteorology_, by Professor Kaenitz, of Halle, by Mr. C.V. Walker, was
published at London in 1845, in one volume 12mo. The work was written in
German, and afterwards translated into French, and the English work is
derived from the French translation. In p. 459. the following passage
occurs:
"It is chiefly to the _shepherd_ Farquharson, at Alford, in
Aberdeenshire, that we are indebted for a long series of observations
on auroræ; and he endeavoured to prove that their height is
inconsiderable."
Lower down it is said:
"At the same time, _another Protestant minister_, Mr. James Paull, at
Tullynessle, four kilometres from Alford, saw that the aurora possessed
an unusual clearness in the zenith, so that its height did not perhaps
exeed 1300 metres."
I have neither the original German work nor the French translation at hand
to refer to; but I have a strong suspicion that the word translated
_shepherd_ is _pasteur_, and that it is used to designate Mr. Farquharson
as _minister_ of Alford.