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Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the polar sea' by Edward Sabine

Reference number: RR/3/244

Date: 04 November 1857

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The results are an improvement of those discovered in the author's previous Toronto experiment.

Subject: Astronomy/Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1857].

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RR/3/244
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04 November 1857
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Report on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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George Peacock

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George Peacock, Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the polar sea' by Edward Sabine, 04 November 1857, RR/3/244, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_244/referees-report-by-george-peacock-on-a-paper-on-hourly-observations-of-the-magnetic-declination-made-by-captain-rochfort-maguire-r-n-and-the-officers-of-h-m-s-plover-in-1852-1853-and-1854-at-point-barrow-on-the-shores-of-the-polar-sea-by-edward-sabine, accessed on 04 November 2024

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