1880萨里郡 约翰·兰德卡普隆发现的麦田圈
特伦斯·米登在2000年发现这封信，并重印发表在了自然杂志上。
下面是信的原文：
The storms about this part of Surrey have been lately local and violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious.
Visiting a neighbour's farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots.
Examined more closely, these all presented much the same character, viz., a few standing stalks as a center, some prostrate stalks with their heads arranged pretty evenly in a direction forming a circle round the centre, and outside these a circular wall of stalks which had not suffered.
I sent a sketch made on the spot, giving an idea of the most perfect of these patches.
The soil is a sandy loam upon the greensand, and the crop is vigorous, with strong stems, and I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field, nor indicating whether it was wind or rain, or both combined, which had caused them, beyond the general evidence everywhere of heavy rainfall.
They were suggestive to me of some cyclonic wind action, and may perhaps have been noticed elsewhere by some of your readers.
Guildown,Guildford, July 23
J. Rand Capron
特伦斯·米登在2000年发现这封信，并重印发表在了自然杂志上。
下面是信的原文：
The storms about this part of Surrey have been lately local and violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious.
Visiting a neighbour's farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots.
Examined more closely, these all presented much the same character, viz., a few standing stalks as a center, some prostrate stalks with their heads arranged pretty evenly in a direction forming a circle round the centre, and outside these a circular wall of stalks which had not suffered.
I sent a sketch made on the spot, giving an idea of the most perfect of these patches.
The soil is a sandy loam upon the greensand, and the crop is vigorous, with strong stems, and I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field, nor indicating whether it was wind or rain, or both combined, which had caused them, beyond the general evidence everywhere of heavy rainfall.
They were suggestive to me of some cyclonic wind action, and may perhaps have been noticed elsewhere by some of your readers.
Guildown,Guildford, July 23
J. Rand Capron
