Paper, 'On the effect of the pressure of the atmosphere on the mean level of the ocean' by Captain Sir James Clark Ross
Reference number: PT/49/5
Date: 1854
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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.
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- PT/49/5
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- 1854
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- Ink on paper
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- 25 pages
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- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1854
December 1853 - June 1854 Reference number: PT/49
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