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The Remarkable Sunsets

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THE numbers of NATURE for October, which are the latest to be seen here at this date, contain in the correspondence accounts of the green appearance of the sun in India. Some solar phenomena observable at present and during the whole of the past month are probably related to these, and yet are sufficiently distinct to deserve a separate description. They have, indeed, attracted the attention of everybody here by their novelty and spectacular magnificence, and to some have an ominous significance in connection with recent seismic disturbances.

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DIVERS, E. The Remarkable Sunsets. Nature 29, 283–284 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029283c0

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