Paper, 'Preliminary report to the Solar Physics Committee on [incomplete]' by Balfour Stewart
Reference number: PP/1/33
Date: 1882
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Stewart presents a comparison for two years between the diurnal ranges of magnetic declination as recorded at the Kew Observatory [London], and the diurnal ranges of atmospheric temperature as recorded at the observatories of Stonyhurst, Kew and Falmouth.
Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two graphs showing fluctuations of temperature and declination at Kew, 1871-1872.
Subject: Physics
Read 9 March 1882.
A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary report to the solar physics committee on a comparison for two years between the diurnal ranges of magnetic declination as recorded at the Kew Observatory, and the diurnal ranges of atmospheric temperature as recorded at the observatories of Stonyhurst, Kew, and Falmouth'.
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- PP/1/33
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- 1882
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 14 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Balfour Stewart, Paper, 'Preliminary report to the Solar Physics Committee on [incomplete]' by Balfour Stewart, 1882, PP/1/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_1_33/paper-preliminary-report-to-the-solar-physics-committee-on-incomplete-by-balfour-stewart, accessed on 11 June 2026
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IV. Preliminary report to the solar physics committee on a comparison for two years between the diurnal ranges of magnetic declination as recorded at the Kew Observatory, and the diurnal ranges of atmospheric temperature as recorded at the observatories of Stonyhurst, Kew, and Falmouth External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1882
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1881.0124
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 33, 1881-1882
1881-1882 Reference number: PP/1
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Dates: 1882 - 1894
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