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Luminous Clouds

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IN an article contributed to NATURE on November 20, 1890 (vol. xliii. p. 59), Herr O. Jesse (of the Royal Observatory of Berlin) gave an account of his observations of luminous clouds. He has recently submitted to the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences a record of later work; and, as the subject is one of considerable interest, it may be worth while to translate his paper.1

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JESSE, O. Luminous Clouds. Nature 44, 229 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044229a0

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