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THERE appears to have been a very remarkable and widespread earth-current storm on March 30 last, full particulars of which it would be extremely useful to have on record. My attention has been drawn to this storm through witnessing, on the evening of that day, one of the most vivid and interesting displays of the aurora that I have ever seen. Mr. G. H. Kinahan, writing in NATURE for April 8 (p. 537), describes the same aurora as observed by him in Donegal between 8 and 9 p.m., and notes its peculiar bright silvery type. It must, however, have been a far less imposing display at Donegal, where the weather was less favourable, than at Kingstown, where I saw it between 9 and 10 p.m., the most brilliant display occurring between 9.30 and 9.45 p.m. From the northerly horizon there rolled up to the zenith in quick succession streams and masses of white light, until the whole face of the sky to the north and west was illuminated with swiftly mounting flames of silvery whiteness and wonderful beauty. A correspondent in NATURE for April 15 (p. 559) describes the same aurora witnessed by him between 8 and 11 p.m. on March 30, at Königsberg, in Prussia.
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BARRETT, W. Earth-Currents and Aurora. Nature 34, 408 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034408a0
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