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RefNoPP/2/36
Previous numbersPP/34/38
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On the connexion between the state of the Sun's surface and the horizontal intensity of the Earth's magnetism' by Balfour Stewart
Date1882
DescriptionStewart writes: 'The late John Allan Broun, in a paper published in the “Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh” (vol. xxii, Part 3), has compared together the daily changes of the Earth’s horizontal magnetic force at the four stations—Makerstoun (Scotland), Trevandrum (India), Singapore, and Hobarton, and has come to the following conclusions:— (1.) The daily mean horizontal force increases at the same time at all the stations, and diminishes at the same time at all the stations. (2.) The proportional amounts of increase and diminution at the stations are not very different from each other.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Magnetism / Astronomy

Received 6 December 1882. Read 14 December 1882.

A version of this paper was published in volume 34 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the connexion between the state of the sun's surface and the horizontal intensity of the Earth's magnetism'.
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1882.0057
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CodePersonNameDates
NA6042Stewart; Balfour (1828 - 1887)1828 - 1887
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