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I SEE in NATURE (p. 548) notices of an unusual aurora that was seen on the evening of October 2. The following observation may be of interest. At 5.30 p.m. that evening, while it was still quite light, I noticed a band of “mare's tail” cirrus extending from the horizon about north-east, through the zenith, to the horizon about south-west; the texture of the cloud—which I may mention somewhat resembled the backbone of a fish—indicated that it was one of the highest sorts of cirrus. The sky at that time was unusually clear of other cirri; and this rib attracted my attention by its unusual length in isolation. Perhaps further observations may tend to show that these high clouds owe something of their arrangement to electrical causes.
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LARDEN, W. The Recent Magnetic Storm and Aurora. Nature 26, 571 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026571f0
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