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Paper, 'An account of the great earthquake experienced in Chile on the 20th February 1835 with a map' by Alex [Alexander] Caldcleugh

Reference number: PT/22/1

Date: 12 June 1835

Description

20 manuscript pages and one fold-out map showing vents in activity around the time of the earthquake.

Subject: Seismology

Published in volume 126 of Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the great earthquake experienced in Chile on the 20th of February, 1835; with a map'.

Written by Caldcleugh in Santiago de Chile. Received by the Royal Society on 15 October 1835. Read 26 November 1835.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 3, 1837.

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PT/22/1
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12 June 1835
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Ink on paper
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander Caldcleugh

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Alexander Caldcleugh, Paper, 'An account of the great earthquake experienced in Chile on the 20th February 1835 with a map' by Alex [Alexander] Caldcleugh, 12 June 1835, PT/22/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_22_1/paper-an-account-of-the-great-earthquake-experienced-in-chile-on-the-20th-february-1835-with-a-map-by-alex-alexander-caldcleugh, accessed on 13 August 2026

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