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AFTER witnessing, with Profs. Lyon and Orr, remarkable effects of afterglow on November 27, I waited for the next issue of NATURE (No. 1205), in the expectation that similar phenomena would be mentioned as having been seen in the British Isles. Curiously enough, the letter on “Afterglow” in that issue comes from Honolulu, dated November 8. It is possible, however, that the effects of volcanic dust from one of the great eruptions of the past summer are now beginning to be noticeable in opposite hemispheres. The Krakatão eruption of August 27, 1883, appears to have caused exceptional afterglows Honolulu on September 5, arid in Western Europe by November 9, in the same year.
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COLE, G. The Afterglow. Nature 47, 127–128 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047127e0
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