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RefNoPT/73/7/12
LevelItem
TitleDrawings, improved machine for sampling seawater at depth by [TP and LFM]
Creator[TP]
[LFM]
Date[1819]
DescriptionPlate 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.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on paper
Dimensions333x206mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0106
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0014
RelatedRecordPT/13/14
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8673
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7481Parry; Sir; William Edward (1790 - 1855)1790 - 1855
NA7022Marcet; Alexander John Gaspard (1770 - 1822)1770 - 1822
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