Unpublished paper, 'On the nature and origin of the Aurora Borealis' by the Reverend Geo [George] Fisher Fisher shares his personal observations on the Aurora Borealis [Northern Lights]. He suggests that 'the Aurora is chiefly developed at the edge or margin of the Frozen Sea [Arctic Ocean]' and that evaporation and the dissolution of ice into the atmosphere is a possible cause of the Aurora Borealis. Subject: Astronomy / Magnetism Received 28 May 1834 by John George Children. Note on back by Children reads 'archives - July 17th 1834'. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the nature and origin of the Aurora Borealis'. May 1834