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WILL you allow me to submit to the further consideration of the competent whether this phenomenon, seen at approximately the same time in Southern India, Ceylon, and the West Indies, could be due solely to the presence in the atmosphere of the vapour of water. Is not the air in these regions normally sur charged through a considerable period of every year with vapour of water? And yet not only is this an unusual appearance, but it has excited, wherever observed, both wonder and some alarm. In one respect the observation from Ceylon (NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 597) is the most noticeable we have had yet, inasmuch as, even when the sun had attained “the very zenith”, his light is said to have continued blue. My doubt is whether a phenomenon so rare could be due solely to a cause so everywhere common.
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CECIL, H. The Green Sun. Nature 28, 612 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028612a0
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