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AP - Archived Papers
- 56 - Archived papers: volume 56, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1874

RefNo	AP/56/4
Level	Item
Title	Paper, 'Tables of temperatures of the sea at different depths beneath the surface, reduced and collated from the various observations made between the years 1772 and 1868 with notes and sections' by Joseph Prestwich
Date	1874
Description	The present paper contains a record of about 1300 observations, which are arranged according to the degrees of latitude: for the northern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere and the inland seas. They are all reduced to common scales of thermometer, measure of depth, and meridian. Their position is given on a map of the world, and the bathymetrical isotherms from the Poles to the Equator, based on the correct and corrected observations, are given in a series of ten sections. Prestwich does not claim for these observations the exact value, or the unity and completeness of plan, of the more recent ones, while, as compared with them, the depths at which they were made are on the whole very limited; still they include a few at great depths; and as they extend over much ground that has not been covered by the expeditions of the ‘Lightning,’ 'Porcupine,’ and 'Challenger,’ he trusts that these tables may be of some use as complemental to these later researches, and as bringing together and reducing to a common standard, observations scattered through a large number of works and memoirs. Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Subject: Oceanography / Geology Received 14 May 1874. Read 18 June 1874. A revised version of this paper was published in volume 165 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Tables of temperatures of the sea at different depths beneath the surface, reduced and collated from the various observations made between the years 1749 and 1868, discussed. With map and sections'.
Extent	101p
Format	Manuscript
PhysicalDescription	Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatus	Open
RelatedMaterial	DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1873.0090
RelatedMaterial	DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1875.0021
RelatedRecord	RR/7/334
RelatedRecord	RR/7/335

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Code	PersonName	Dates
NA3811	Prestwich; Sir; Joseph (1812 - 1896)	1812 - 1896

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