| RefNo | AP/32/9 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the calling of the sea' by Richard Edmonds |
| Creator | Edmonds; Richard (fl 1850) |
| Date | 1850 |
| Description | Edmonds states that in the neighbourhood of Penzance [Cornwall, England] there is often heard inland a murmuring or a roaring noise, described locally as 'the calling of the sea', which on some occasions extends to the distance of eight or ten miles; whereas, at other times, although to a person on the shore the sea may be equally loud, and the state of the weather may appear equally favourable, no sound from the sea can be heard at the tenth part of that distance. From his observations during six years, he concludes, that when the calling of the sea proceeds from a direction different from the wind, or when it occurs during a calm, it is usually followed within six hours by a wind from the quarter from which it is heard.
Subject: Hydrology / Oceanography
Received 5 June 1850. Read 20 June 1850. Communicated by William Jory Henwood.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'The calling of the sea'. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0257 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7596 | Henwood; William Jory (1805 - 1875) | 1805 - 1875 |