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WHEN sailing off the western Scottish coast, I found it possible to predict with certainty phosphorescent nights owing to a nipping sensation on the backs of my fingers after immersion in the sea. This seems to indicate some marine organism. As Dr. R. E. D. Clark's letter in NATURE of April 3 suggests, the phosphorescence is doubtless due ” to the agitation of phosphorescent marine organisms”.
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NATURE, 115, 944 (1925).
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FRENCH, J. Phosphorescence of the Sea. Nature 139, 804–805 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139804c0
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