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PART IV. of this Report, on the optical phenomena, by the Hon. F. A. Rollo Russell and Mr. E. Douglas Archibald, comprises 311 pages of letterpress, or the major portion of the work. Owing to the enormous mass of material which went on accumulating for nearly four years from the date of the eruption, as well as the complexity surrounding the optical phenomena, which in some cases were entirely novel, and in others differed both in quality as well as intensity from their normal analogues, it was plainly a work of some considerable difficulty to decide how best to arrange and discuss the data, as well as to avoid arriving at hasty conclusions from the first indications of appearances which continued in part right up to the beginning of 1887. When the wonderful sunsets appeared in this country, the idea of their being connected with the eruption of Krakatão was first suggested and traced out with remarkable clearness by Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., in his article in the Times (December 8, 1883).
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Pogg. Ann., Bd. cxxiii. (1863), pp. 240–76.
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The Report of the Krakatão Committee of the Royal Society. Nature 39, 345–348 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039345a0
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