<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://catalogues.royalsociety.org:443/CalmView/record/catalog/AP/8/19/1" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <dc:title>Unpublished manuscript, regarding the phenomenon of the sun from J Manderson to Sir Joseph Banks</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter from Manderson to Banks regarding an unusual phenomenon of the sun observed on 2 March 1812 at Falmouth [Cornwall, England]. Manderson describes a corona appearing around the sun with three parhelia and a second corona around this, with the colours of the rainbow visible in an unusual order. Manderson asks to be informed of any similar occurrences.

Subject: Meteorology / Astronomy

Written by Manderson in Tretheage, Penryn [Cornwall, England].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>19 March 1812</dc:date>
</rdf:Description>