Paper, 'On the graduation of the thermometers supplied from the Kew Observatory [London] for the use of the Arctic searching expedition under Sir Edward Belcher' by John Welsh
Reference number: AP/33/29
Date: 21 April 1852
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Welsh describes the process of calibrating a set of mercurial and spirit thermometers graduated for low temperatures.
Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments / Meteorology
Written by Welsh at Kew Observatory.
This paper was published in full 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 'On the graduation of the thermometers supplied from the Kew Observatory for the use of the arctic searching expedition under Sir Edward Belcher'.
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- 21 April 1852
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- 5 pages
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John Welsh, Paper, 'On the graduation of the thermometers supplied from the Kew Observatory [London] for the use of the Arctic searching expedition under Sir Edward Belcher' by John Welsh, 21 April 1852, AP/33/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_33_29/paper-on-the-graduation-of-the-thermometers-supplied-from-the-kew-observatory-london-for-the-use-of-the-arctic-searching-expedition-under-sir-edward-belcher-by-john-welsh, accessed on 22 April 2025
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On the graduation of the thermometers supplied from the Kew Observatory for the use of the arctic searching expedition under Sir Edward Belcher External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1854
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0067
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Archived papers: volume 33, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1849-1852
1849-1852 Reference number: AP/33
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