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THE following paragraph appeared in the Times of June 16:— "During the past week, after heavy rain, a thin film of sulphur has been observed at Windsor, Slough, and in the neighbourhood generally, to settle upon the surface of rain-water caught in butts and cisterns. The phenomenon at first did not attract much attention, but being observed on different occasions it has given rise to muck speculation as to the cause of it, there being no manufactures in the neighbourhood at all likely to have produced it. It has been suggested that a sulphureous vapour may have been wafted to this country by the recent south-east winds, and arrested and deposited in the rain."
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CARPENTER, P. Pine-Pollen mistaken for Flowers of Sulphur. Nature 20, 195–196 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020195b0
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