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On the Non-Simultaneity of Suddenly Beginning Magnetic Storms

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IN his paper “On the Supposed Propagation of ‘Equatorial’ Magnetic Disturbances with Velocities of the Order of a Hundred Miles per Second,” read before the Physical Society of London, November 11, 1910, and published in the Proceedings of that society, vol. xxiii, pp. 49–;57, Dr. Chree, in reviewing my paper published in the Journal of Terrestrial Magnetism (vol. 15, pp. 93–;105), expressed some doubts as to my views on the subject of the non-simultaneity of suddenly beginning magnetic storms.

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FARIS, R. On the Non-Simultaneity of Suddenly Beginning Magnetic Storms. Nature 87, 78 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087078a0

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