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Letter from Balfour Stewart, on two papers 'The absolute direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic force at Bombay, and its secular and annual variations' and 'On the lunar variations of magnetic declination at Bombay' by Charles Chambers

Reference number: RR/7/160

Date: 16 March 1872

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Further remarks on his report.

Subject: Astronomy

['The absolute direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic force at Bombay, and its secular and annual variations' published in Philosophical Transactions, 1876].
['On the lunar variations of magnetic declination at Bombay' published in PRoceedings of the Royal Society, 1871].

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RR/7/160
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16 March 1872
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Balfour Stewart, Letter from Balfour Stewart, on two papers 'The absolute direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic force at Bombay, and its secular and annual variations' and 'On the lunar variations of magnetic declination at Bombay' by Charles Chambers, 16 March 1872, RR/7/160, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_160/letter-from-balfour-stewart-on-two-papers-the-absolute-direction-and-intensity-of-the-earths-magnetic-force-at-bombay-and-its-secular-and-annual-variations-and-on-the-lunar-variations-of-magnetic-declination-at-bombay-by-charles-chambers, accessed on 11 December 2024

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