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MR. ALEX. MORTON, secretary and librarian of the Royal Society of Tasmania, has sent some photographs of lightning flashes taken by Mr. W. Aikenhead, one of which is here reproduced. The photographs were taken at night with a hand camera. Referring to them, Mr. Aikenhead remarks:—“The thunderstorm was an unusually severe one, and the atmosphere surcharged with electricity, as evidenced by the frequency and extraordinary vividness of the lightning flashes, whose brilliancy momentarily rendered objects, even at a distance, as clearly discernible as in daylight. The intensity of the ‘triple’ flash—of which I was so fortunate as to secure a counterfeit—was so great that for some moments I was completely dazzled. I may mention that the thunderstorm lasted fully an hour, and was at its height about 9 o'clock; and it was at this period the exposures were made with my camera.”
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Ribbon and Dark Lightning. Nature 60, 423–424 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060423a0
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