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Published and unpublished letters, regarding the survey of the East Indian Archipelago from various correspondents

Reference number: AP/31/6

Date: 1849

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Three letters, dated 8 June 1849, 31 July 1849 and 6 August 1849, relating to a magnetic survey of the East Indian Archipelago undertaken by Captain Charles Morgan Elliot.

Subject: Hydrology / Meteorology

Received 4 October 1849 / 18 October 1849.

An abstract of a related paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Magnetic survey of the eastern archipelago'.

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AP/31/6
Earliest possible date
1849
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Ink on paper
Page extent
18 pages
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Manuscript

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Published and unpublished letters, regarding the survey of the East Indian Archipelago from various correspondents, 1849, AP/31/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_31_6/published-and-unpublished-letters-regarding-the-survey-of-the-east-indian-archipelago-from-various-correspondents, accessed on 15 March 2025

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