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Severe Frost at Hongkong

Nature volume 47, pages 535–536 (1893)Cite this article

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THE occurrence of severe frost at moderate elevations within the Tropics must be rare. It seems worth while therefore to place on record in the columns of NATURE some portion at least of an official report on the low temperature which (as was stated in NATURE last week) occurred at Hongkong between the 15th and 18th of January:

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  1. Superintendent Botanical and Afforestation Department,

    CHARLES FORD

  2. C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, &c,

    G. T. M. O'BRIEN

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FORD, C., O'BRIEN, G. Severe Frost at Hongkong. Nature 47, 535–536 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047535a0

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