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PROF. PIAZZI SMYTH in his letter headed as above to NATURE (vol. xxi. p. 248) has given us the latest information regarding those variations of temperature indicated by the Edinburgh earth thermometers, commonly termed “waves of heat and cold.” He has, however, cited but one case in which an extraordinary amount of sunshine was actually observed to occur simultaneously with the crest of a heat-wave, viz., in 1826.
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ARCHIBALD, E. Sunshine Cycles. Nature 21, 393–394 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021393a0
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