Letter, regarding submission of paper on the temperature of wells and thermal springs from Thomas John Newbold to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie
Reference number: PT/29/1i
Date: 15 July 1842
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Letter from Newbold to Christie enquiring as to whether his previous submission of the paper found at PT/29/1 had been received. Included are several temperature observations taken in 1838-1839 at Mangalore [Mangaluru, India] and sea temperatures between Bombay [Mumbai, India] and Suez [Egypt]. These observations were published as part of the paper.
Subject: Geodesy
Relates to paper published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the temperature of the springs, wells and rivers of India and Egypt, and of the sea and table-lands within the tropics'.
Written by Newbold in Bombay [Mumbai] and addressed to Christie at Somerset House, London.
Abstract of paper published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.
- Reference number
- PT/29/1i
- Earliest possible date
- 15 July 1842
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- 17 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Thomas John Newbold, Letter, regarding submission of paper on the temperature of wells and thermal springs from Thomas John Newbold to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, 15 July 1842, PT/29/1i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_29_1i/letter-regarding-submission-of-paper-on-the-temperature-of-wells-and-thermal-springs-from-thomas-john-newbold-to-s-h-samuel-hunter-christie, accessed on 09 November 2025
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On the temperature of the springs, wells and rivers of India and Egypt, and of the sea and table lands within the tropics; with a few remarks on M. Boussingault's mode of ascertaining the mean temperature of equinoctial regions External link, opens in new tab.
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Referee's report by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny, on a paper 'On the temperature of the springs, wells and rivers of India and Egypt, and of the sea and table-lands within the tropics' by Thomas John Newbold
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1845
January 1842 - June 1845 Reference number: PT/29
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