| RefNo | AP/25/23 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished letter, 'On a sudden rise and fall of the sea in the dock yard creek, Malta' by J [James Robert] Napier to Dr [Peter Mark] Roget |
| Date | 4 August 1843 |
| Description | Napier writes to share copies of three letters: the first, dated 7 July 1843, from Sea Admiral Lucius Curtis to Napier; the second, dated 26 June 1843, from Napier to Curtis; the third, dated, 11 July 1843, from William Miller to Napier. The correspondence regards gradual changes in the water level in the harbour at Malta, which is suggested to be caused by submarine volcanic action and not attributed to the force of the wind. Napier includes tables of data on the water level in the harbour at Malta between 2 January 1843 and 24 June 1843.
Subject: Oceanography / Civil engineering
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 'On a sudden rise and fall of the sea in the Dock-yard Creek, Malta, on the 21st and 25th June, 1843'. |
| Extent | 16p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0003 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6288 | Napier; James Robert (1821 - 1879) | 1821 - 1879 |