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Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the variations of the daily mean horizontal force of the earth's magnetism produced by the suns rotation and the moon's synodical and tropical revolutions' by John Allan Broun

Reference number: RR/7/437

Date: 12 January 1876

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The subject of the paper is 'of great importance to magnetisms'.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1876].

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RR/7/437
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12 January 1876
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Balfour Stewart

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Balfour Stewart, Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the variations of the daily mean horizontal force of the earth's magnetism produced by the suns rotation and the moon's synodical and tropical revolutions' by John Allan Broun, 12 January 1876, RR/7/437, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_437/referees-report-by-balfour-stewart-on-a-paper-on-the-variations-of-the-daily-mean-horizontal-force-of-the-earths-magnetism-produced-by-the-suns-rotation-and-the-moons-synodical-and-tropical-revolutions-by-john-allan-broun, accessed on 15 January 2025

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