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Luminous Night Clouds

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THE many inquiries and appeals regarding observations of luminous night clouds which have recently appeared in the columns of NATURE, and the growing importance of the subject, will justify me, perhaps, in sending to you, for publication in that journal, the following item, so long after the event it describes took place.

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MCLENNAN, E. Luminous Night Clouds. Nature 41, 131–132 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/041131d0

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