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A Curious Halo

Nature volume 27, pages 30–31 (1882)Cite this article

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THERE appeared in NATURE, vol. xxvi. pp. 268, 293, two articles headed “A Curious Halo,” which reminded me of an analogous and still more curious phenomenon occurring sometimes here in China, during the hot season. I beg to hand you a few lines on that subject, from the Monthly Bulletin of the Zi-ka-Wei Observatory for August, 1877:—

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DECHEVRENS, M. A Curious Halo. Nature 27, 30–31 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027030b0

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