| RefNo | PT/29/1i |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, regarding submission of paper on the temperature of wells and thermal springs from Thomas John Newbold to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie |
| Date | 15 July 1842 |
| Description | Letter from Newbold to Christie enquiring as to whether his previous submission of the paper found at PT/29/1 had been received. Included are several temperature observations taken in 1838-1839 at Mangalore [Mangaluru, India] and sea temperatures between Bombay [Mumbai, India] and Suez [Egypt]. These observations were published as part of the paper.
Subject: Geodesy
Relates to paper published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the temperature of the springs, wells and rivers of India and Egypt, and of the sea and table-lands within the tropics'.
Written by Newbold in Bombay [Mumbai] and addressed to Christie at Somerset House, London.
Abstract of paper 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 5, 1851. |
| Extent | 17p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0011 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1845.0002 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/1/171 |
| PT/29/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7319 | Newbold; Thomas John (1807 - 1850) | 1807 - 1850 |
| NA8168 | Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician | 1784 - 1865 |