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Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the variations of the mean diurnal inequality of the horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic force at Bombay, and their relations to the sun-spot period' by Frederick Chambers

Reference number: RR/9/257

Date: 30 June 1885

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. He should modify some of his views prior to publication.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1884].

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RR/9/257
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30 June 1885
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Balfour Stewart, Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On the variations of the mean diurnal inequality of the horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic force at Bombay, and their relations to the sun-spot period' by Frederick Chambers, 30 June 1885, RR/9/257, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_257/referees-report-by-balfour-stewart-on-a-paper-on-the-variations-of-the-mean-diurnal-inequality-of-the-horizontal-component-of-the-earths-magnetic-force-at-bombay-and-their-relations-to-the-sun-spot-period-by-frederick-chambers, accessed on 14 July 2026

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