Unpublished paper, 'An account of a line of levels carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean, to the river Euphrates' by William Taylor Thomson
Reference number: AP/21/20
Date: April 1838

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Thomson shares observations on course of the river Euphrates and the structure and elevation of the surrounding landscape. He describes the operation, beginning in August 1835, of carrying the line of levels across North Syria with Lieutenant Murphy.With geological and botanical notes by William Ainsworth. Includes a map of the route traversed. Annotated in pencil throughout.
Subject: Geography
Received 25 April 1838. Communicated by Captain [Francis] Beaufort.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of a line of levels, carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean sea to the river Euphrates'.
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- AP/21/20
- Earliest possible date
- April 1838
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 22 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished paper, 'An account of a line of levels carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean, to the river Euphrates' by William Taylor Thomson, April 1838, AP/21/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_21_20/unpublished-paper-an-account-of-a-line-of-levels-carried-across-northern-syria-from-the-mediterranean-to-the-river-euphrates-by-william-taylor-thomson, accessed on 12 February 2025
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Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0021
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Archived papers: volume 21, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1836-1838
1837-1838 Reference number: AP/21
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