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Referee's report by John Couch Adams, 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/7/438

Date: 1876

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author is 'one of the first to discuss his magnetic observations with the view of finding inequalities'.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1876].

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RR/7/438
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1876
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Report on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Couch Adams

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John Couch Adams, Referee's report by John Couch Adams, 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, 1876, RR/7/438, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_438/referees-report-by-john-couch-adams-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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