XXV. Report on the physical investigations carried on by P. Herbert Carpenter, B. A., in H. M. S. 'Valorous' during her return voyage from Disco Island in August 1875

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1877
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Arctic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1876.0044; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1876.0044

The despatch of H. M. S. ‘Valorous’ to Disco Island, in the summer of 1875, with stores for the use of the Arctic Discovery Ships, having afforded an opportunity for the prosecution of a Deep-Sea Physical and Biological Exploration of the North Atlantic and Baffin’s Bay, which should be complementary to the work elsewhere carried on by the ‘Challenger,’ a suggestion for the prosecution of this inquiry on the return voyage of the ‘Valorous’ was made by the Council of the Royal Society, and approved by the Admiralty. Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys having undertaken the general charge of the work, named as his assistant my Son, Mr. P. Herbert Carpenter, who had accompanied me in the ‘Lightning’ and ‘Porcupine’ Expeditions; and it was arranged that, while aiding Dr. Jeffreys in the Biological work, he should take special charge of the Physical. A grant from the Donation Fund having been made to Dr. Jeffreys and myself for the expenses of the inquiry, I endeavoured to make such provision for the conduct of the Physical observations as should render them capable of accurate correlation with those of the ‘Challenger.’ With this view, I obtained two water-bottles, on the construction devised by Mr. Buchanan (the Physicist of the ‘Challenger’), from Messrs. Milne, of Edinburgh, by whom they had been supplied to him; and also two Hydrometers, on Mr. Buchanan’s construction, from Messrs. Kemp, who had previously made them under Mr. B.’s direction.