| RefNo | AP/21/3 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Considérations physiques sur le passage Nord-ouest' [Physical considerations on the Northwest Passage] by Luigi [Louis] Dau |
| Date | 5 June 1836 |
| Description | Dau attempts to identify the mean summer atmospheric temperature of the most northern point of the continent of America. His calculations are given in a table, exhibiting the extreme and the mean temperatures of the atmosphere for each of the summer months, from May to September, at all degrees of latitude, from 60 degrees to 80 degrees inclusive. Followed by a cover letter from Dau to the King of Great Britain.
Subject: Meteorology
Received 18 August 1836. Read 15 June 1837. Communicated by the Earl of Minto.
Written by Dau in Atessa [Italy].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Considérations physiques sur le passage Nord-ouest; by the same. Communicated by the Right Hon. the Earl of Minto, G. C. B. F. R. S.'. |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 16p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0300 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1194 | Elliot; Gilbert (1782 - 1859); 2nd Earl of Minto | 1782 - 1859 |