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MR. G. H. HOPKINS' observation that the parting ray at sunset is sometimes brilliant emerald-green brings to my memory a somewhat similar experience. On September 13, 1865, watching on the summit of the Rigi for sunrise, I caught the very first possible glimpse of the sun's disk as, on a very clear morning, he emerged from behind the sharply-defined outline of a distant mountain. The very first rays, although necessarily proceeding from the comparatively obscure limb of the sun, were dazzlingly brilliant, and of a superb emerald green colour. But almost instantly, as more of the sun appeared and his light grew sensibly more intense, the green passed away or was merged in the yellowish white of ordinary sunlight.
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SWAN, W. Green Sunlight. Nature 29, 76 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029076b0
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