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Paper, 'Report of a remarkable appearance of the aurora borealis below the clouds' by James Farquharson

Reference number: PT/26/4

Date: 1842

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Report of a remarkable appearance of the aurora borealis below the clouds'.

Received by the Royal Society on 17 March 1842. Read 14 April 1842.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.

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PT/26/4
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1842
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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James Farquharson

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James Farquharson, Paper, 'Report of a remarkable appearance of the aurora borealis below the clouds' by James Farquharson, 1842, PT/26/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_26_4/paper-report-of-a-remarkable-appearance-of-the-aurora-borealis-below-the-clouds-by-james-farquharson, accessed on 09 December 2025

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