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OF the many successfully conducted land expeditions sent out by the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington since its establishment in 1904, news has just been received of the successful completion of two of the most important and Interesting ones. Mr. D. C. Sowers headed an expedition which started out from Peking, China, on January 30 of this year, passing through China and Chinese Turkestan, reaching Kashgar on. August 2, and then crossing the Himalayan range and arriving at Leh, India, at the end of September. Magnetic observations and other geographical data were obtained along, the entire route traversed. Mr. Sowers's chief assistant was Prof. Fuson, formerly professor of history and geography at the Christian College, Fuson, China.
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Magnetic Expeditions . Nature 82, 166 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082166a0
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