| Reference number | AP/31/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, 'Remarks on de la Rive's theory for the physical explanation of the causes which produce the diurnal variation of the magnetic declination' from Edward Sabine to Samuel Hunter Christie |
| Date | 16 April 1849 |
| Description | Sabine writes of a theory regarding the general phenomena of the diurnal variation of the magnetic declination, and, in particular, the phenomena observed at St Helena and at the Cape of Good Hope [South Africa].
Annotations in ink throughout.
Subject: Magnetism / Meteorology
Received 19 April 1849. Communicated by Christie.
Written by Sabine in Woolwich [London].
This letter was published in full 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 'Remarks on M. De la Rive’s theory for the physical explanation of the causes which produce the diurnal variation of the magnetic declination. In a letter to S. Hunter Christie, Esq., Sec. R. S., from Lieut.-Col. Sabine, For. Sec. R. S. Communicated by S. Hunter Christie, Esq'. |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0189 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |
| NA8168 | Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician | 1784 - 1865 |