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Atmospheric Depressions and their Analogy with the Movements of Sunspots

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A SOMEWHAT prolonged absence from home has prevented me seeing until now your, note on July 21, page 280, in which the writer remarks that the results of M. Camille Flammarion—published in the July number of L'Astronomie—“seem to confirm the view suggested by M. Faye that the constitution of [sun] spots resembles somewhat that of the cyclones with which we are familiar.”

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COLLINS, F. Atmospheric Depressions and their Analogy with the Movements of Sunspots. Nature 46, 489–490 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046489b0

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