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CO NXENXS- 



Lightning Flashes from Earth to Cloud. 



Observatory of the Ebro, 



White Ants. 



A New Volcanic Island. 



The January Eclipse of the S 

 Lord Rosse's Smaller Telescope. 

 The Pleiades. 

 The Face of the Sky for January. 



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