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Unpublished diagram, 'Frederiksdal [Cape Farewell, Greenland]' by [Samuel] Haughton

Reference number: AP/48/3

Date: April 1866

Description

A large diagram showing curved lines mapped onto squared paper, labelled with dates and times from '29 August 61 AM [sic]' to '17 August 610 AM', representing tidal patterns. Marked on back as 'Archives Haughton Apr/66'. This diagram presumably relates to a paper published by Haughton in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the tides of the Arctic Seas. - Part III. On the semidiurnal tides of Frederiksdal, near Cape Farewell, in Greenland'.

Subject: Meteorology / Oceanography

Reference number
AP/48/3
Earliest possible date
April 1866
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
11 pages
Format
Diagram

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Samuel Haughton

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Samuel Haughton, Unpublished diagram, 'Frederiksdal [Cape Farewell, Greenland]' by [Samuel] Haughton, April 1866, AP/48/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_48_3/unpublished-diagram-frederiksdal-cape-farewell-greenland-by-samuel-haughton, accessed on 18 January 2025

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