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The Sun's Corona

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A LETTER of mine, addressed to you a fortnight since, has, I fear, miscarried. It had special claim to admission as complaining of an editorial remark.

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  1. P.S. —Mr. Lockyer seems not to be aware that what he claims to have proved respecting the corona is accepted by me as proved, and forms an essential part of my theory. I am as well satisfied as he can be (and on the same grounds) that the corona is not a solar atmosphere.

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PROCTOR, R. The Sun's Corona. Nature 2, 277 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002277c0

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