| RefNo | PT/16/22 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, 'Communicating the details of experiments made with an invariable pendulum, at various places on the South American station' by Captain Basil Hall to Captain [Henry] Kater |
| Date | 23 February 1823 |
| Description | Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R. N. to Captain Kater, communicating the details of experiments made by him and Mr. Henry Foster, with an invariable pendulum; in London; at the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, near the Equator; at San Blas de California on the N. W. Coast of Mexico; and at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. With an appendix, containing the second series of experiments in London, on the return'.
Written by Hall on His Majesty's Ship Conway in Spithead [Hampshire]. Read 24 April 1823.
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 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 94p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0213 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0022 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3408 | Hall; Basil (1788 - 1844); naval officer and author | 1788 - 1844 |
| NA1206 | Kater; Henry (1777 - 1835) | 1777 - 1835 |