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Prof. J. Cabannes, Prof. J. Dufay and J. Gauzit1 state that the twilight enhancement of the yellow radiation of the night sky announced by me2 was previously observed by Currie and Edwards at Chesterfield (Canada) during the International Polar Year, 1932–33. To support their opinion, they give a short quotation from a paper published in 1936 by the Canadian physicists3. The complete sentence should have been quoted ; it is as follows:
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BERNARD, R. Enhancement of the Sodium D Lines in the Twilight Sky Light. Nature 142, 164 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142164a0
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