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WE have received the following letters with regard to arborescent frost patterns, to which Prof. Meldola called attention in last week's NATURE:— I AM very glad that Prof. Meldola has called attention to the curved figures of frozen mud (of which the specimens on December 4 were unusually fine), because I hope that some one will explain why the sexangular crystallization which is universal in snow, and general in water, is exchanged both on windows and on muddy pavements for curves. Probably I ought to know all about it, but I cannot remember seeing an explanation, and shall be obliged by reference to one, which will probably be of interest to others besides
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SYMONS, G., BONNEY, T., GLADSTONE, J. et al. Arborescent Frost Patterns. Nature 47, 162 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047162a0
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