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  <dc:title>Account of a 'white Iris' seen in the sky sent by Dr Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane </dc:title>
  <dc:description>On 12 September 1728 Scheuchzer was travelling from Zurich to Baden in thick fog when he noticed an 'iris' of white colour - details of a white rainbow which a friend had witnessed on 9 September are given  - refers to a similar event in Oxford on 23 November 1675 by Dr Plot, which was printed in 'Philosophical Transactions'
Read to the Royal Society on 3 June 1731</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1731</dc:date>
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