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Luminous Apparitions, or False Lights

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 4.

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Luminous Apparitions, or False Lights.

These are not due, as was long supposed, to the products of animal or vegetable decomposition, but are caused by insects which possess organs that become luminous. It is now well known that the phosphorescence of the sea is due to the presence of immense numbers of microscopic animals.—Journal of the Chemical Society.