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ON December 29 just passed, at 3.40 p.m., or shortly after sunset, and during the late frosty storm, there was a brilliant repetition of the iridescent clouds concerning which I wrote to NATURE about a year ago. The tendency of many of these little clouds, or cloudlets, to rectilinear rhomboidal forms was remarkable; also their confinement in point of colour to blue, violet, rose-pink, and green—eschewing yellow, orange, and vermilion reds while the sunset sky below them was, on the contrary, a gorgeous panorama of all those yellow-cum-red partaking colours.
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PIAZZI-SMYTH, C. Iridescent Clouds. Nature 33, 219–220 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033219b0
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