| RefNo | AP/27/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished letter, 'An account of a slight shock of an earthquake felt in the Channel Islands' from Elliott Hoskins to Peter Mark Roget |
| Date | 5 January 1844 |
| Description | Hoskins describes a noise resembling a distant thunder-clap, which was 'immediately followed by sounds as of a railroad carriage rumbling over an irregular metallic surface [...] accompanied by distinct undulatory motion'. This was followed by a shock, the whole thing lasting from 10 to 15 seconds.
Annotations in ink throughout.
Subject: Seismology
Communicated by Roget.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of a slight shock of an earthquake felt in the channel Islands. J. Elliott Hoskins, M. D., F. R. S.: in a letter to P. M. Roget, M. D., Sec. R. S., &c. Communicated by Dr. Roget'. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0007 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |
| NA7603 | Hoskins; Samuel Elliott (1799 - 1888) | 1799 - 1888 |