Paper, 'On the attraction of the Himmalaya [Himalaya] Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line of India' by John Henry Pratt 113 manuscript pages including five figures. Subject: Geodesy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line in India'. Written by Pratt at Deep River, Cape of Good Hope [Diep River, Western Cape, South Africa]. Communicated by J [James] Challis. Received by the Royal Society on 23 October 1854. Read 7 December 1854. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 7, 1856. 12 July 1854