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NOTICING in NATURE (vol. xviii. p. 617, and vol. xix. pp. 148, 173, 220) references to the “magnetic storm” of May 14, 1878, I have had prepared by Mr. C. A. Schott, the assistant having direction of our magnetic observatory at Madison, Wisconsin, the inclosed memoranda relative to observations made at that point, as an item of interest to your readers, illustrating the general character and almost simultaneous action of that great magnetic disturbance.
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PATTERSON, C. The Magnetic Storm of May 14, 1878, Observed in North America. Nature 19, 288 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019288c0
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