| RefNo | AP/23/25 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished observations, 'Register of tides at Port Arthur [Australia]' by T J [Thomas James] Lempriere |
| Creator | Lempriere; Thomas James (1796-1852); colonial commissariat officer |
| Date | 1839 |
| Description | Lempriere shares observations recorded between August 1838 and July 1839 inclusive. They are recorded in a table with headings date, high water (time, height), low water (time, height), range of tide, wind (direction, force) and remarks.
Subject: Meteorology / Oceanography
Received from Sir John Herschel 26 March 1840. Read 9 July 1840. Communicated by Sir John Franklin.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Meteorological Register kept at Port Arthur, Van Diemen’s Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana], during the year 1838, and Register of Tides at Port Arthur, from August 1838 to July 1839, both inclusive' [attributed to Arthur Reid Lempiere]. |
| Extent | 22p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0250 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7486 | Franklin; Sir; John (1786 - 1847) | 1786 - 1847 |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |