Proceedings of the stated meeting held Wednesday, October 21, 1914

✍ Scribed by R.B. Owens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1914
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 44 KB
• Volume: 178
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(14)90285-x

✦ Synopsis

who presented a communication on " The Earth, a Great Magnet."

The speaker gave the chief facts and latest results pertaining to the earth's magnetism, based largely upon the general magnetic survey of the earth, begun by the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution in 1904 and now two-thirds completed. The cruises of the non-magnetic ship Carnegie and the instrumental appliances and methods used in the observational work were described. An account was also given of the various expeditions sent under Dr. Bauer's direction to distant and more or less unexplored countries. The lecturer discussed the possible bearing of researches in terrestrial magnetism on other mooted questions in terrestrial and cosmical physics.

Experiments and lantern slides were used to illustrate the subject. The Chairman conveyed the thanks of the audience to the speaker.

The meeting then adjourned. R. B. OWENS,