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RefNoRR/3/244
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. S. ‘Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the shores of the polar sea' by Edward Sabine
Date4 November 1857
DescriptionRecommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The results are an improvement of those discovered in the author's previous Toronto experiment.

Subject: Astronomy/Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1857].
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionReport on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1857.0025
RelatedRecordRR/3/242
PT/58/10
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7093Peacock; George (1791 - 1858)1791 - 1858
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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