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A NEWSPAPER paragraph that has come under my notice describes “a strange phenomenon” seen at Brixham on Thursday morning at 1.30—the 15th instant is to be inferred from the date of the paper. It would seem to have been an aurora—yet another example of exceptional auroral activity attendant on the passage of large sun-spots, as there was a spot of importance approaching the sun's central meridian at the time. Any definite information concerning this particular manifestation, or indeed aurora generally near the date in question, appears worthy of a place in your journal. The sun-spot maximum is passing—perhaps past—and such opportunities should not be lost.
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E., F. Aurora. Nature 27, 413 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027413a0
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