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RefNoAP/48/3
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished diagram, 'Frederiksdal [Cape Farewell, Greenland]' by [Samuel] Haughton
DateApril 1866
DescriptionA large diagram showing curved lines mapped onto squared paper, labelled with dates and times from '29 August 61 AM [sic]' to '17 August 610 AM', representing tidal patterns. Marked on back as 'Archives Haughton Apr/66'. This diagram presumably relates to a paper published by Haughton in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the tides of the Arctic Seas. - Part III. On the semidiurnal tides of Frederiksdal, near Cape Farewell, in Greenland'.

Subject: Meteorology / Oceanography
Extent11p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1866.0028
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1866.0022
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2959Haughton; Samuel (1821 - 1897)1821 - 1897
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