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Davis Bay and Baffin's Bay [Baffin Bay] are both located between Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. 225 manuscript pages and 10 separate plates.

Subject: Oceanography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay'.

Communicated by Prof [Thomas Henry] Huxley. Received by the Royal Society on 26 April 1864. Read 12 May 1864.

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.

Reference number
PT/72/5
Earliest possible date
1864
Physical description
Ink on paper; numerous fold-out manuscript pages and data tables
Page extent
235 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Kitchen Parker

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Thomas Rupert Jones

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William Kitchen Parker, Thomas Rupert Jones, Paper, 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay' by W [William] Kitchen Parker and T [Thomas] Rupert Jones, 1864, PT/72/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_72_5/paper-on-some-foraminifera-from-the-north-atlantic-and-arctic-oceans-including-daviss-straits-and-baffins-bay-by-w-william-kitchen-parker-and-t-thomas-rupert-jones, accessed on 13 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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