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  <dc:title>Drawings, improved machine for sampling seawater at depth by [TP and LFM]</dc:title>
  <dc: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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1819]</dc:date>
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