218:. Working for the Canada Department of Public Works, the architect William Henderson, in consultation with Denison, designed the new station to provide seismological and astronomical services for western Canada. For use in the dome on the structure, Denison acquired a 5-inch equatorial telescope and made it available for supervised use by the public. In April 1914, the government officially opened the new station. When E. Baynes Reed died in 1916, Denison was appointed director of meteorological services for British Columbia and the
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205:, Denison presented evidence gathered over 11 years from 1899 to 1910 in Victoria, B.C. His observations of changes in level of a horizontal pendulum demonstrated a correlation between the pendulum's wanderings and the annual frequency of exceptionally strong earthquakes.
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