Abstract
THE Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington renders a signal service to science by the publication of the important volume entitled "Description of the Earth‘s Main Magnetic Field and its Secular Change, 1905-1945"1. In a sense this represents the attainment (for the time) of one primary objective urged by the first director of the Department, the late L. A. Bauer, upon Andrew Carnegie, in the negotiations which led in 1904 to the institution of the Department. The volume has been prepared almost entirely under the control of the second director, J. A. Fleming, who from early days was Bauer‘s right-hand man in the development of the Department. The third director is to be congratulated on being able to issue so great a contribution to the science for the furtherance of which his Department was founded.
Article PDF
References
Carnegie Institution of Washington: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Publication 578: Description of the Earth‘s Main Magnetic Field and its Secular Change, 1905–1945. By E. H. Vestine, Lucile Laporte, Caroline Cooper, Isabelle Lange and W. C. Hendrix. Pp. v+532. (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1947.) 2.50 dollars.
Carnegie Institution of Washington: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Final Values of Elements of the Geomagnetic Field at 5-Degree Intervals of Latitude and Longitude, Epoch 1945. By L. Laporte, C. Cooper, I. Lange, W. C. Hendrix and E. H. Vestine. Pp. 73. (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1946.) n.p.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
CHAPMAN, S. The Earth‘S Surface Magnetic Field and its Secular Change. Nature 161, 160–161 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161160a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161160a0
This article is cited by
-
Neuere ausländische Arbeiten auf erdmagnetischem Gebiet
Deutsche Hydrographische Zeitschrift (1951)