The Magnetic Work of the Carnegie Institution¹

Abstract

THE primary object of the volume referred to below is to chronicle the results of observations made on land by members of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, from 1914 to 1920. During that period 1747 stations were occupied, bringing up to 4028 the number of land stations occupied since the world survey began in 1905. Even the general reader will find much to interest him in the field observers' reports on pp. 98-222. Mr. F. Brown, for instance, who travelled over large areas in China, Mongolia, Manchuria, Upper Burma, the Cameroons, and French Equatorial Africa, and who crossed Central Africa from Angola to Mozambique, relates adventures with brigands, lions, witch doctors, and native kings.