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IT is unfortunate that more accurate observations of the electrical phenomena accompanying auroral displays cannot be made upon the telegraph wires of this country. The truth is, public business cannot be made to suffer for scientific investigation, and at such moments the disturbance of the wires makes it more than ever imperative that delays should not occur. The whole efforts of the staff are directed to maintain the communications intact, hence the observations made on February 4 are not very numerous, though they are sufficiently interesting to deserve record.
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PREECE, W. Earth-Currents and the Aurora Borealis of February 4, 1872. Nature 5, 368 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005368a0
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