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THE Scottish Meteorological Society has just received the schedules of its observers in Iceland and Farö for February last. At Stykkisholm, on the north-west of Iceland, auroras were seen on each of the nights of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and at Thorshavn an aurora of a remarkably red colour was observed in the S. E and S. in the evening of the 4th. It was also observed at North Uist, Shetland, of a very red colour, and over all the S.E. of the sky; at Monach, the most western island of the Hebrides, and at nearly all the 150 stations which report to the Society, appearing at some places as early as 5 P.M., and continuing visible at others till half-past one on the morning of the 5th. Major Stuart, the Society's observer at Janina, Greece, also reports an aurora on the 4th from 6.30 P.M. to midnight.
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BUCHAN, A. The Aurora of February 4. Nature 5, 461 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005461a0
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