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Severe Frost at Hongkong

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THE occurrence of severe frost at moderate elevations within the Tropics must be rare. It seems worth while therefore to place on record in the columns of NATURE some portion at least of an official report on the low temperature which (as was stated in NATURE last week) occurred at Hongkong between the 15th and 18th of January:

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FORD, C., O'BRIEN, G. Severe Frost at Hongkong. Nature 47, 535–536 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047535a0

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