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PRECISELY because the article (NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 183) on “The Sun's Magnetic Action at the Present Time”, is by so able a mathematical physicist as Mr. John Allan Broun, and because of all sides of the solar problem there is none wherein he is so facile princeps as the magnetic, I venture to think this a good opportunity for asking a question which has troubled me much of late, and which is this:—
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SMYTH, P. Sun-spots and Terrestrial Magnetism. Nature 17, 220–221 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017220b0
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