Record

RefNoPT/49/5/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, chart of daily mean level of the ocean and mean height of the barometer by James Clark Ross
Date[1854]
DescriptionUnpublished chart showing the observed daily mean level of the ocean and the mean height of the barometer in November and December 1848.

Subject: Meteorology / Hydrography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the effect of the pressure of the atmosphere on the mean level of the ocean'.

Written by Ross at Aston Abbotts House, Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire]. Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 June 1854.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk chart on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0029
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1854.0013
RelatedRecordRR/2/207
RR/2/208
PT/49/5
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7948Ross; Sir; James Clark (1800 - 1862)1800 - 1862
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