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REGARDING the suggested physical origin of a seeming predominance of solar prominences seen on the east limb as compared with the west limb, referred to in NATURE, of January 31, p. 425, allow me to direct attention to numerous observations I have made which leave no doubt as to a predominance of deflection effects on and near the east limb being mostly to the violet, whereas west of the central meridian and on the west limb they are mostly towards the red. This feature is confirmed by the observations of M. Deslandres, and an illustrated account is given by him in the Paris Comptes rendus, tome 155, p. 1573 (séance du 30 décembre, 1912).
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BUSS, A. Eastern and Western Asymmetry of Solar Prominences. Nature 101, 5 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101005a0
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