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A DISCUSSION on "Solar Phenomena and Some Allied Geophysical Effects" was held at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society on March 10. The president of the Society, Prof. E. A. Milne, was in the chair, and the discussion was based upon four papers contributed during the recess by the following authors: Mr. H. W. Newton, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich ("Solar Mares and Magnetic Storms": second paper); Dr. C. W. Allen, of the Solar Observatory, Canberra ("Relation between Magnetic Storms and Solar Activity"); Mr. M. A. Ellison ("Sunspot Prominences: some Comparisons between Limb and Disk Appearances");. and Dr. H. A. Brück, of the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge ("On the Distribution of Intensity within the Solar Corona"). Others who spoke during the discussion were Prof. H. H. Plaskett, Prof. W. H. McCrea, Dr. T. G. Cowling and Dr. A. Hunter.
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Solar Phenomena and Geomagnetism. Nature 153, 452–454 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153452a0
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