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113 manuscript pages including five figures.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line in India'.

Written by Pratt at Deep River, Cape of Good Hope [Diep River, Western Cape, South Africa]. Communicated by J [James] Challis. Received by the Royal Society on 23 October 1854. Read 7 December 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/50/2
Earliest possible date
12 July 1854
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Ink on paper
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113 pages
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Manuscript

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John Henry Pratt

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John Henry Pratt, Paper, 'On the attraction of the Himmalaya [Himalaya] Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line of India' by John Henry Pratt, 12 July 1854, PT/50/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_50_2/paper-on-the-attraction-of-the-himmalaya-himalaya-mountains-and-of-the-elevated-regions-beyond-them-upon-the-plumb-line-of-india-by-john-henry-pratt, accessed on 17 January 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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