Unpublished paper, 'On the extraordinary oscillations of the sea; with an account of some observed in Mountsbay [Mount's Bay] and Plymouth [England]' by Richard Edmonds
Reference number: AP/32/8
Date: April 1850
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Edmonds describes many 'remarkable oscillations' of the sea which had been observed nearly a century ago in Mount’s Bay and Plymouth Sound, and also elsewhere. He then describes some which have occurred more recently at these locations. In one key observation, he writes that in the morning of the 31st of May, 1811, the sea was observed to rise and fall rapidly from 4 to 8 feet.
Subject: Hydrology / Oceanography
Received 30 April 1850. Communicated by Sir Charles Lemon.
Written by Edmonds in Penzance [Cornwall, England].
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 'On extraordinary oscillations of the sea; with an account of some observations in Mount’s Bay'.
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- AP/32/8
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- April 1850
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- 17 pages
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Richard Edmonds
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Richard Edmonds, Unpublished paper, 'On the extraordinary oscillations of the sea; with an account of some observed in Mountsbay [Mount's Bay] and Plymouth [England]' by Richard Edmonds, April 1850, AP/32/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_32_8/unpublished-paper-on-the-extraordinary-oscillations-of-the-sea-with-an-account-of-some-observed-in-mountsbay-mounts-bay-and-plymouth-england-by-richard-edmonds, accessed on 05 November 2024
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Date: 31st December 1851
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0253
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Archived papers: volume 32, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1849-1850
1849-1850 Reference number: AP/32
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