Unpublished observations, 'Register of tides at Port Arthur [Australia]' by T J [Thomas James] Lempriere

Description

Lempriere shares observations recorded between August 1838 and July 1839 inclusive. They are recorded in a table with headings date, high water (time, height), low water (time, height), range of tide, wind (direction, force) and remarks.

Subject: Meteorology / Oceanography

Received from Sir John Herschel 26 March 1840. Read 9 July 1840. Communicated by Sir John Franklin.

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 'Meteorological Register kept at Port Arthur, Van Diemen’s Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana], during the year 1838, and Register of Tides at Port Arthur, from August 1838 to July 1839, both inclusive' [attributed to Arthur Reid Lempiere].

Reference number

AP/23/25

Earliest possible date

1839

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

22 pages

Format

Manuscript