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No. V : Systems of magnetic forces causing the secular variation of the 

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. Proposed magnetic and electric observations during the total solar 



eclipse of August 30, 1905. (Preliminary information.) (Science, n. s., 

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. Recent advances in the analysis of the earth's permanent magnetic field. 



Address before the Int. Elec. Congress, St. Louis, 1904. (Science, n. s., v. 

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. Appeal for cooperation in magnetic and allied observations during total 



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. A contemplated magnetic survey of the North Pacific Ocean by the 



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InduzierteThoriuniaktivitatin Gottingen. (Reprint from Physikalische 



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— . The biological relations of certain cacti. (American Naturalist. 1905.) 

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