Magnetic Survey of New Zealand

Abstract

IN the observational work recorded in the publication referred to below Dr. Farr had much assist, ance from Mr. Skey, who succeeded him as director of the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory when Dr. Farr became professor of physics at Canterbury College, while Mr. D. B. MacLeod took an active part in the discussion of results. The observational work extended over the years 1899 to 1909, in the course of which 334 stations were occupied, including forty-four in the Southern Islands, Chathams, and West Coast Sounds. The instruments, a unifilar mag. netometer and dip circle-the former once used by the North American Boundary Commission, and by the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition were lent by the old Kew Committee of the Royal Society.