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REPORT — 1895. 



Table III. — Diurnal Inequality of Declination {after 



Hour . 



January . 

 February . 

 March 

 April . 

 May . 

 June . 

 July . 

 August 

 September 

 October 

 November . 

 December . 



First Quarter 

 Second Quarter 

 Third Quarter 

 Fourth Quarter 



Winter 

 Summer . 



Year . 



units in the last place cannot, I think, be maintained for a moment ; but 

 the omission of the last figure would render it impossible to give an 

 adequate idea of the extreme smallness of the variation during many- 

 hours of the night. 



The most conspicuous feature of the declination diurnal inequality, 

 especially in summer, is the rapid change from a maximum easterly 

 declination, occurring from 7 to 9 a.m., to a maximum westerly declination 

 about 1 P.M. In winter, as is apparent on inspection of the winter and 

 midwinter curves, there is a subsidiary westerly movement during the 



