XXX. Results of hourly observations of the magnetic declination made by Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, and the officers of the yacht ‘Fox,’ at Port, 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
In the spring of 1857 Captain Francis Leopold McClintock, of the Royal Navy, being about to proceed to the Arctic Seas in the ‘Fox’ Yacht in search of the ships which had formed Sir John Franklin’s Expedition, applied to the President and Council of the Royal Society “to afford him such information...
| Published in: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1863
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1863.0030 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1863.0030 |