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Table III. — Declination (continued). 



The values of the declination in the above table are not 

 to be depended on to within two or possibly three minutes, 

 as (i) the observation for the torsion of the suspending 

 thread was not always made ; (2) , the hour of observation 

 not being always the same, the results are affected by the 

 diurnal variation; and (3) the results must also be affected 

 by irregular disturbances. 



XVII. Inquiries concerning a Change in the Position of 

 the Earth's Axis. By Arthur W. Waters, F.G.S. 



Eead March 6th, 1877. 



I HAD intended at a previous Meeting of the Society to ask 

 certain questions about a possible change of the position of 

 the earth's axis ; but as there was more interesting matter 

 brought forward, I postponed it, and have thought it best 



