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Paper, 'Account of magnetic observations made between the years 1858-61 inclusive in British Columbia Washington Territory and Vancouver Island' by Capt R W [Robert Wolseley] Haig

Reference number: PT/70/2

Date: 1863

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Refers to British Columbia, Canada; Washington Territory [including the modern states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming in the United States]; and Vancouver Island [British Columbia, Canada]. 12 manuscript pages and three maps showing lines of magnetic inclination, declination, and force.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of magnetic observations made in the years 1858–61 inclusive, in British Columbia, Washington Territory, and Vancouver Island'.

Communicated by General [Edward] Sabine. Received by the Royal Society on 4 November 1863. Read 26 November 1863.

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 13, 1864.

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PT/70/2
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1863
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Wolseley Haig

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Robert Wolseley Haig, Paper, 'Account of magnetic observations made between the years 1858-61 inclusive in British Columbia Washington Territory and Vancouver Island' by Capt R W [Robert Wolseley] Haig, 1863, PT/70/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_70_2/paper-account-of-magnetic-observations-made-between-the-years-1858-61-inclusive-in-british-columbia-washington-territory-and-vancouver-island-by-capt-r-w-robert-wolseley-haig, accessed on 12 November 2024

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