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Clouds and Shadows

Nature volume 89, page 244 (1912)Cite this article

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IN a letter to NATURE (April 18) Mr. Chas. Tilden Smith directs attention to a peculiar shadow he noticed in the western sky last Easter Monday after sunset, and which he no doubt correctly attributed to “some unseen object intercepting the sun's rays,” and so casting a shadow on the high and still directly illuminated stratus he mentions.

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PORTER, T. Clouds and Shadows. Nature 89, 244 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089244a0

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