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IN NATURE of Jan. 5, 1929, p. 15, there appeared a letter from Prof. Edward S. King on a possible relation between changes in the rate of the earth's rotation and changes in the magnetic declination. Prof. E. W. Brown (Trans. Ast. Obs., Yale University, vol. 3, part 6) is quoted as having shown that changes more or less abrupt occurred in the former quantity about 1785, 1850, 1898, and 1918.
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GOLDIE, A. Rotation of the Earth and Magnetostriction. Nature 124, 303 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124303b0
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