| Reference number | PT/69/15/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, 'Magnetic disturbances' by Gen [Edward] Sabine |
| Date | December 1863 |
| Description | Plate containing four graphs showing easterly and westerly magnetic disturbances over 24 astronomical hours in Port Kennedy [Bellot Strait, Nunavut, Canada] and Point Barrow [Nuvuk, Alaska, United States].
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Results of hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, and the officers of the yacht ‘Fox,’ at Port Kennedy, in the Arctic Sea, in the winter of 1858-59; and a comparison of these results with those obtained by Captain Rochfort Maguire, and the Officers of Her Majesty's Ship ʻPloverʼ, in 1852, 1853, and 1854, at Point Barrow'.
Received by the Royal Society on 21 December 1863. Read 7 January 1864. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| Physical description | Ink graphs on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1863.0019 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1863.0030 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/5/233 |
| RR/5/235 |
| PT/69/15 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |
| NA1600 | McClintock; Sir; Francis Leopold (1819 - 1907) | 1819 - 1907 |