Paper, 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire RN [Royal Navy] and the officers of HMS [His Majesty's Ship] Plover in 1852, 1853 and 1854 at Point Barrow on the shores of the Polar Sea' by Maj General Edward Sabine
Reference number: PT/58/10
Date: 1857
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Point Barrow, also known as Nuvuk, is a headland on the coast of Alaska, United States.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the Polar Sea'.
Received by the Royal Society on 14 August 1857. Read 19 November 1857.
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 8, 1857.
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Edward Sabine, Paper, 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire RN [Royal Navy] and the officers of HMS [His Majesty's Ship] Plover in 1852, 1853 and 1854 at Point Barrow on the shores of the Polar Sea' by Maj General Edward Sabine, 1857, PT/58/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_58_10/paper-on-hourly-observations-of-the-magnetic-declination-made-by-captain-rochfort-maguire-rn-royal-navy-and-the-officers-of-hms-his-majestys-ship-plover-in-1852-1853-and-1854-at-point-barrow-on-the-shores-of-the-polar-sea-by-maj-general-edward-sabine, accessed on 22 March 2025
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Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the polar sea' by Edward Sabine
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Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the polar sea' by Edward Sabine
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1857
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