CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 381

on

(

а

-period of four years, the ground that the magnete

variation at this station

·

undergoes so

little

change

as

to

from year to year

make continuous observation

unnecess

2.

cesse

Before acquieseing i

in

this proposition I would be obliged by Your Lordship favouring me with an expression of opinion from the Astronomer Royal and the New Committee of the

Royal

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Royal Essiety as to whether - observations for four

consecutive

years- made to alternate with intervening periods of four

years

without observations-will.

be likely to so

to so im

impair

the

value of the dables, as to _ "render" it greatly preferable

that the records should be

continuous.

3.

may mention that as both Mr Christie and the New Committee are regularly supplied with the Hongkong

Magnetis