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PROF. ROWLAND has lately published in the American Journal of Mathematics (vol. ii., No. 4; vol. iii., Nos. 1 and 2) a series of papers on “The General Equations of Electromagnetic Action with application to a New Theory of Magnetic Attractions, and to the Theory of the Magnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarisation of Light.” The papers, in addition to v.hit is stated in their title, contain the mathematical consideration of that action of magnetism on electric currents which was lately discovered by Mr. Hall, and it is proved in them that, if Maxwell's theory of light be true, this action will explain the magnetic rotation of the plane of polarisation of light. These papers will no doubt be very extensively read, both on account of the interest of their contents and the great reputation of their author, and a brief discussion of them may therefore not prove uninteresting to the readers of NATURE.
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THOMSON, J. Prof. Rowland's New Theory of Magnetic Action . Nature 24, 204–206 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024204b0
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