xxiv INTRODUCTION TO THE MAKERSTOUN OBSERVATIONS, 1845 AND 1846. 
Bifilar magnetometer, observed every 5™ during vibration ; mean during vibration cor- 
rected for temperature = 569°3 sc. div. 
Deflecting bar with scale and lens suspended in brass stirrup, ® = 0003966. 
As all the observations for the time of vibration of the deflecting bar had been 
made previously with the bar suspended in a stirrup of silk fibres, in order to employ 
the second formula for K, given above, depending on the dimensions and weight of 
the bar, it was necessary in the present case, to determine the value of K for the 
same mode of suspension. ‘The two values of © given above for the bar suspended 
in a brass and in a silk fibre stirrup, without the ring, give ® with brass stirrup 
suspension, to ® with silk stirrup suspension, as, 193 : 200, whence, from the value 
of ® above for brass stirrup suspension and magnet with the ring, = 0°003966, we 
find © for silk stirrup suspension and magnet with ring = 0-004109. 
Since 6, — 6, = — 15°4 se. div., & = 0-000135, 4, — 4, = + 04, g = 0000288. 
The true time of one vibration with the ring (reduced to the value of X for T,) T, = 2758403. 
25. From the above, therefore, we find for the deflecting bar without ap- 
pendages, 
Log K, = 2:9091359 at the temperature of 38°-4 Fahr. 
The value of K used in the reductions in the present volume has been obtained 
from K, by the formula 
K=K, {1 +e (4 — 38)? 
where ¢ is the dilatation of steel for 1° Fahr. = 0:0000068, and ¢, is the temperature 
of the bar during vibration. 
a + &? 
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26. The following are the observations for the value of the induction coefficient 
From the formula K = W, log K = 2:9096351. 
2” Nov 15, 1847. A strong wooden beam having been fixed horizontally in the 
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prolongation of the magnetic axis of the bifilar magnet which lies at right angles 
to the magnetic meridian, the deflecting bar was mounted in a wooden block having 
«a groove cut to contain the bar; when the deflecting bar was in its place, it was in 
the same horizontal plane with, its axis was at right angles to, and its centre was in 
the prolongation of, the axis of the bifilar magnet. The block was fixed to the 
wooden beam: the deflecting bar when removed and replaced, was carried with a thick 
cloth glove or silk handkerchief, to prevent variation of temperature in handling. 
In reversing the magnet, the same side was always kept next the bifilar magnet.* 
* It will in general be preferable to place the deflecting bar to the east or west (as in the present 
observations), rather than to the north or south of the bifilar magnet, since I have found that the 
centre of figure may differ considerably from the centre of magnetism; perhaps, for the same reason, 
when observations are made only on one side of the bifilar magnet, the deflecting bar should be in- 
verted when it is reversed, since the magnetic axis may be nearer one side of the bar than the other. 
