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Paper, ['Magnetic survey of the Eastern Archipelago'] by Charles Morgan Elliot

Reference number: PT/41/1

Date: 1851

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'Eastern Archipelago' refers to the Indonesian archipelago or Nusantara. 450 pages of manuscript and tables, including two figures.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Magnetic survey of the Eastern Archipelago'.

Communicated by Lieut Col [Edward] Sabine. Received by the Royal Society on 15 January 1851. Read 16 January 1851.

Abstract 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 6, 1854.

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PT/41/1
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1851
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450 pages
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Charles Morgan Elliot

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Charles Morgan Elliot, Paper, ['Magnetic survey of the Eastern Archipelago'] by Charles Morgan Elliot, 1851, PT/41/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_41_1/paper-magnetic-survey-of-the-eastern-archipelago-by-charles-morgan-elliot, accessed on 25 June 2025

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