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TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM.— Results of observations made at the 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observatory near 

 Honolulu, 1913 and 1914. Daniel L. Hazard. U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey Serial Publication No. 21. 1916. 

 This publication is in' continuation of the series giving the results 

 obtained at the Honolulu magnetic observatory since its establishment 

 in 1902. It contains a summary of the monthly determinations of the 

 scale-values of the horizontal intensity and vertical intensity variom- 

 eters; the base-line values derived from the weekly absolute observa- 

 tions; diurnal variation tables for the magnetic elements D, H, and I, 

 the total force F, and the rectangular components X, Y, Z; hourly values 

 of D, H, and Z, together with daily and hourly means for each month ; 

 a tabulation of the earthquakes recorded on the seismograph; a list of 

 the magnetic disturbances of considerable magnitude, and reproduc- 

 tions of the magnetograms showing the more marked disturbances. 

 Attention is called to the fact that beginning with 1913 intensity results 

 obtained by this Bureau have been reduced to the international standard 

 of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington. Published results for earlier years must be dimin- 

 ished by one part in a thousand to reduce them to that standard. 



D. L. H. 



PHYSICS. — Photometry of gas-filled lamps. G. W. Middlekauff and 

 J. F. Skogland. Bureau of Standards Scientific Paper No. 264. 

 17 pp. 1916. 

 The introduction of an inert gas into the bulb of an incandescent 

 electric lamp introduces new uncertainties in photometry by the ordi- 

 nary rotating lamp method. As this method of photometry is still in 



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