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DURING a heavy thunderstorm which passed over Calcutta about 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, June 8 last, the house of Conductor W. Viney, at Cossipore (a suburb of the city), was struck by lightning, and I have thought that a description of the phenomena connected with it might perhaps be worth placing on record in the columns of NATURE.
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MCMILLAN, W. On the Phenomena of the Lightning Discharge, as Illustrated by the Striking of a House in Cossipore, Calcutta. Nature 40, 295–296 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040295a0
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