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VARIATION OF LATITUDE: THE KIMURA TERM.—After applying all known corrections to the results obtained by the International Latitude Service, there remains a periodic term, known as the Kimura term, for which many explanations have been suggested. Dr. F. E. Ross now suggests that this term is not real, but is due to our lack of knowledge concerning the method of treating the results. He points out that any one of the suggested explanations is efficient, but argues that there is no need for them, for any periodic error in the system of mean declinations adopted would produce a so-called Kimura term. (Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 4630.)
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Our Astronomical Column. . Nature 90, 683 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090683a0
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