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Paper, 'Extract relating to the earthquake in Java from the log book of the steamship "Governor General Loudon"' by H G Kennedy

Reference number: PP/4/19

Date: 13 September 1883

Description

Kennedy shares entries from a ship's log book beginning 26 August 1883.

Subject: Seismology / Hydrography

Received 4 December 1883. Read 10 January 1884. Communicated by Robert Henry Scott.

A version of this paper was published in volume 36 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Report from H. B. M. consul at Batavia [colonial name of the capital of the Dutch East Indies, now Jakarta, Indonesia], inclosing extract relating to the volcanic outbursts in the Sunda Strait, from the logbook of the steam-ship “Governor-General Loudon." Communicated by R. H. Scott, F. R. S'.

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PP/4/19
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13 September 1883
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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25 pages
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Manuscript

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H G Kennedy

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H G Kennedy, Paper, 'Extract relating to the earthquake in Java from the log book of the steamship "Governor General Loudon"' by H G Kennedy, 13 September 1883, PP/4/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_4_19/paper-extract-relating-to-the-earthquake-in-java-from-the-log-book-of-the-steamship-governor-general-loudon-by-h-g-kennedy, accessed on 19 September 2024

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