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WHEN the full burst of auroral displays is upon us, and one brilliant demonstration treads close on the heels of another, there may be some trouble in ascertaining which corresponds to which on opposite sides of the earth. But the opening of the new cycle-season by the arc which I described in your pages on March 17, has proved so isolated a phenomenon in time, that it cannot be confounded with any other either before or since. And while your subsequent notice of the disturbance of the magnets at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, on the same night, proved that the aurora seen in Edinburgh was an earth-ball phenomenon, and not a mere local atmospheric glimmer, the following letter, which has just reached me from Canada, shows a remarkable correspondence to have prevailed there.
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SMYTH, P. Auroral Response in America. Nature 21, 609 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021609b0
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