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MR. TROMHOLT has rendered a great service to science by the travels and observations recorded in these volumes; indeed, it would not perhaps be going too far to say that we have here, brought before us in the most interesting manner, one of the best organised attempts to study the aurora that has been made for many years, the credit for which must be given to the organisers of the International Polar Research Expedition of 1882–83. Mr. Tromholt's duty was to observe all auroral phenomena in the Lapp settlement of Kouto-kseino, and above and beyond this to observe in such a way that, in combination with other observations arranged for at the Norwegian station at Bossekop in Finmarken and the Finnish one at Sodankyla in the centre of Finland, certain conclusions might be arrived at regarding the height at which the various displays take place.
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The Aurora 1 . Nature 32, 274–276 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032274a0
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