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The Green Flash

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PROF. PORTER'S interesting letter (NATURE, February 18, p. 672) on this subject must be my excuse for sending a summary of my own experience during the last eighteen years in which I have observed the flash more than a hundred times, and in no single case did I find anything not explainable by atmospheric dispersion, nor anything that could be put down as a subjective or complementary afterimage.

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WHITMELL, C. The Green Flash. Nature 95, 35–36 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095035b0

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