| RefNo | PT/53/10 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'On the deflection of the plumb line at Arthur's Seat and the mean specific gravity of the earth' by Lieutenant Colonel [Henry] James |
| Date | 7 February 1856 |
| Description | 33 manuscript pages and two plates showing a map of Edinburgh and sections through Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's Seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth'.
Received by the Royal Society on 11 February 1856. Read 21 February 1856.
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 8, 1857. |
| Extent | 35p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0014 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1856.0029 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/3/151 |
| RR/3/152 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2879 | James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); surveyor | 1803 - 1877 |