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THE Astronomer Royal desires me to mention, in regard to Mr. W. H. Preece's communication (p. 289) describing an unusually sudden appearance of earth-currents between 10h. and 11h. p.m. on January 19, that our magnetic and earth-current registers both show, throughout the night of January 19, more or less of unusual disturbance, never however very considerable. The greatest deviation occurred in a sudden wave at 10h. 15m., as Mr. Preece describes. From 10h. 50m. until midnight there was general quiet, and the disturbance afterwards was not great.
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ELLIS, W. Earth-Currents. Nature 25, 315 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025315c0
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