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IT is curious how the recent auroræ have been followed not only by a cold wave, but by a subsequent warm one, and these respectively of such extremes, that 21° at 9 a.m. on the 11th is this day replaced by 48° or 27° of difference. Equally strange have been the effects on animal and vegetable life. During the cold, an almost Arctic season in its ice-bound stillness prevailed, and a flock of wild geese crossing in front of the house (the forerunners, in public opinion, of a hard winter) represented external creature life. Now all is changed almost to spring. Roses, though somewhat nipped by the frost, seem ready to blow; flies and gusts are unthawing, and last night, in going up to the observatory, I noticed the phosphorescent glimmer of a luminous centipede under one of the shrubs, a sight I do not remember ever to have met with in winter before.
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CAPRON, J. The Weather. Nature 27, 198 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027198d0
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