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YESTERDAY, Wednesday, March 17, was a magnificently bright sunshiny day from early morning to latest evening; and at 9 p.m. the aurora appeared, just as it used to do years ago in the last sun-spot cycle, and when that strange influence was in its then vigorous existence. Your readers were warned last October that the sun-spots of the new cycle had then begun βin earnest,β and now we have to chronicle the first of their auroral fruits.
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SMYTH, P. The Aurora at Last. Nature 21, 492 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021492a0
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