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24 manuscript pages and one plate showing the daily mean level of the ocean and mean height of the barometer.

Subject: Meteorology / Hydrography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the effect of the pressure of the atmosphere on the mean level of the ocean'.

Written by Ross at Aston Abbotts House, Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire]. Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 June 1854.

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 7, 1856.

Reference number
PT/49/5
Earliest possible date
1854
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
25 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Clark Ross

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James Clark Ross, Paper, 'On the effect of the pressure of the atmosphere on the mean level of the ocean' by Captain Sir James Clark Ross, 1854, PT/49/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_49_5/paper-on-the-effect-of-the-pressure-of-the-atmosphere-on-the-mean-level-of-the-ocean-by-captain-sir-james-clark-ross, accessed on 11 November 2025

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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