Unpublished letter, 'An account of a slight shock of an earthquake felt in the Channel Islands' from Elliott Hoskins to Peter Mark Roget
Reference number: AP/27/4
Date: 05 January 1844
Description
Hoskins describes a noise resembling a distant thunder-clap, which was 'immediately followed by sounds as of a railroad carriage rumbling over an irregular metallic surface [...] accompanied by distinct undulatory motion'. This was followed by a shock, the whole thing lasting from 10 to 15 seconds.
Annotations in ink throughout.
Subject: Seismology
Communicated by Roget.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 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 slight shock of an earthquake felt in the channel Islands. J. Elliott Hoskins, M. D., F. R. S.: in a letter to P. M. Roget, M. D., Sec. R. S., &c. Communicated by Dr. Roget'.
- Reference number
- AP/27/4
- Earliest possible date
- 05 January 1844
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished letter, 'An account of a slight shock of an earthquake felt in the Channel Islands' from Elliott Hoskins to Peter Mark Roget, 05 January 1844, AP/27/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_27_4/unpublished-letter-an-account-of-a-slight-shock-of-an-earthquake-felt-in-the-channel-islands-from-elliott-hoskins-to-peter-mark-roget, accessed on 08 November 2024
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Archived papers: volume 27, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1841-1845
1841-1845 Reference number: AP/27
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