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THE correspondence on this subject (NATURE, vol. xxviii. pp. 4 and 54) can scarcely be said to contribute anything in support of the statement that sheat-lightning and the so-called summer or heat-lightning, are nothing else than the reflection of, or the illumination produced by, distant electrical discharges. The table given in the review (NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 576) is not a record of instances of sheet-lightning, but only the number of hours, sorted according to the twenty-four hours of the day, in which sheet-lightning or heat-lightning was observed at Oxford during the twenty-four years ending 1876. In constructing the table, all those hours were excluded in which thunder was heard, and also the hour immediately preceding and following the hour of occurrence of thunder. Only those hours, therefore, were included during which any thunder that may have accompanied the lightning was at some distance from Oxford.
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THE REVIEWER. Sheet-lightning. Nature 28, 80 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028080a0
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