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LONDON. Physical Society, December 11.—Prof. Ayrton, Vice-President, in the chair.—A paper on the applications of physics and mathematics to seismology was read by Dr. C. Chree. Prof. J. Milne has attempted to account for certain changes in the indications of spirit-levels and delicately suspended pendulums by the supposition that they are due to meteorological agencies, such as rainfall or evaporation. Thus he considers that a relative excess of moisture—say, on the west of an observatory—is equivalent to a surface load on that side tending to make the ground, on which the observatory rests, slope down wards from east to west.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 55, 164–168 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055164b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/055164b0