| Reference number | PT/73/7/12 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawings, improved machine for sampling seawater at depth by [TP and LFM] |
| Creator | [TP] |
| [LFM] |
| Date | [1819] |
| Description | Plate 12 showing an instrument for sampling seawater at depth made by John Newman of Lisle Street, London and used by William Edward Parry's 1819-1820 expedition to Baffin Bay [between Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada and Greenland] aboard HMS Hecla. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed, but the plate bears two sets of initials. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Geodesy / Hydrography
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the specific gravity, and temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline contents' by Alexander John Gaspard Marcet.
Read to the Royal Society on 20 May 1819. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Physical description | Graphite on paper |
| Dimensions | 333x206mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0106 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0014 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/13/14 |
| URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8673 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7481 | Parry; Sir; William Edward (1790 - 1855) | 1790 - 1855 |
| NA7022 | Marcet; Alexander John Gaspard (1770 - 1822) | 1770 - 1822 |