DIURNAL VARIATIONS FOR THE VERTICAL COMPONENT OF MAGNETIC Force. vii 
the mean positive disturbance occurred about 6" p.m., the minimum between 11" p.m. and 8" a.m.; that the 
maximum of the mean negative disturbance occurred about 2" a.m. and the minimum about 6% p.m., although 
the values varied little between noon and 8 p.m. 
109. The approximate epochs of maxima and minima for the mean disturbance, independent of sign, (indi- 
cating the principal maximum by + and minimum by—), are as follow :— 
Min. Max. Min. Max 
Winter—Nov. Dec. Jan. —11) a.m. +6" PM. gh pM. 1? a.m. 
Spring—Feb. March, April, —10® a.m. 53> p.m. 83" p.m. +135 am. 
Summer—May, June, July, 1, pM. 52 pM. —10" pm. +35 a.m. 
Autumn—aAug. Sept. Oct. —1lb am. 5> P.M. 83> p.m. +33? a.m. 
It has been seen that the positive disturbance has its maximum about 5"—6" p.m., and the negative dis- 
turbance its maximum about 2 a.M., so it appears now that the mean disturbance, independent of sign, has a 
maximum near both hours. 
110. In winter the secondary maximum, about 1" .m., is very indistinctly marked ; in summer the second- 
ary maximum, about 5» p.m., is very small compared with the other; the principal minimum occurs in winter 
about 11" a.m.; that at 10" p.m. is best marked in summer. In this case also, as in the cases of the magnetic 
declination, No. 45, and the horizontal component, No. 77, the diurnal variation of the magnetic disturbance 
in summer is nearly the reverse of that in winter. The diurnal variation of the disturbance is very nearly the 
same in spring as in autumn. 
TABLE 54.—Variations of the Vertical Component of Magnetic Force with reference to the Moon’s 
Hour-Angle for the Winter and Summer Lunations, and for all the Lunations of the Years 1844 
and 1845. 
Moon's Winter Lunations. Summer Lunations. All the Lunations. 
Hour-” 
Angle. 1844. 1845, 2 i 1844, | 1845, Mean. 1844. | 1845. || Mean. 
0-00 0-00 1 o 0-00 | 0-00 0-00 0-00 0-00 || 0-00 
—0054 | +0002 +0017 +0012 | —0019 } +0005 || —0007 
—0086 | +0013 — 0009 +0003 | —0047 +0014 || —0016 
| —0069 | —0039 |) —0014 0000 } —0042 | —0015 — 0028 
— 0071 | —0029 | — 0022 g —0010 | —0046  —0014 | —0030 
—0058 | —0031 — 0031 | —0025 | —0045 —0025 | —0035 
—0007 | +0002 | — 0009 — 0005 —0008 | +0001 — 0003 
/ +0059 | +0030 || — 0018 —0004 | +0020 , +0021 | +0020 
| +0107 | +0038 p +0007 +0013 |.+0058 | +0030 | +0044 
+0094 | +0036 | ) +0039 +0020 | +0067 | +0020 +0043 
| +0049 | +0021 | d +0017 —0001 } +0033 | +0002 | +0017 
+0043 | —0014 +0007 —0010 | +0025 | —0021 +0002 
| —0004 | —0025 +0015 +0007 | +0006 | —0013 — 0003 
111. Variation of the Vertical Component with reference to the Moon’s Hour-Angle.—There are four 
independent results in Table 54, namely two for the winter lunations, and two for the summer lunations of 
1844 and 1845, the others depend on these. In all the four the maximum vertical component occurs between 
2 and 4 hours after the moon’s transit of the inferior meridian ; in three cases a secondary maximum occurs at, 
or shortly after the superior transit,—minima occurring during the intermediate period, from 6 to 8 hours after, 
and from 2 to 4 hours before, the superior transit; in the winter lunations for 1844, only the principal maxi- 
mum and minimum are shewn (see the similar case for the horizontal component No. 80), and, as the variations 
for this group are much greater than for any of the others, it is probable that the difference is due to disturb- 
ances. See the volumes for 1844, p. 382, where the elimination of the larger disturbances leaves traces of a 
secondary maximum and minimum. 
112. From the means of all the winter lunations in Table 54 
The vertical component is a maximum about 2 hours after the moon’s inferior transit. 
Oe <ch atelo see.esesee--Minimum.........9 hours after the moon’s superior transit. 
