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RefNoMS/516/10/3
LevelItem
TitleLetter from S. E. Bishop, Hawaiian Government Survey, Honolulu, to [George James] Symons, Chair of the [Royal Society] Krakatoa Committee
Date30 April 1884
DescriptionInforms he has received one definitive report from Eastern Micronasia as to the continuation of the Equatorial Smoke -Stream from Krakatoa, to a point 1560 miles further west than Fannings I, the most westerly point to which it was hitherto been traced. Informs that Mr Ferdinand L Clarke, who has been with the labor vessel Julia for several months, in the SW Pacific, as Agent of the Hawaiian Government, has just returned from Honolulu, having lost all his valuable collections in the wreck of the vessel but luckily managed to save his notesand extracts from when his first observations of the smoke-steam were made.The detailed observation within the letter were published in the Honolulu PC advertiser.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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