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AN article, by Prof. G. H. Darwin, on “Barisàl Guns and Mistpouffers” appeared in NATURE for October 31. Summarising a letter in which I drew his attention to this phenomenon, he mentions two sources for these mysterious sounds, which my friend M. Rutot and I have considered as possible, namely that the origin is entirely terrestrial, or that it is a special phenomenon of atmospheric electricity. It is as well, perhaps, also to point out another purely atmospheric source, viz. that it may arise from the abrupt displacement of a mass of superheated air in unstable equilibrium, which rises suddenly in the atmosphere.
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VAN DEN BROECK, E. Curious Aerial or Subterranean Sounds. Nature 53, 30 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053030b0
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