Oregon
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Subject Source: Local sources
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Correspondence on chronometers, 1849 - 1859
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/599
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the location, identity, rates and purchases of various chronometers. The volume includes repairs to and complaints with chronometer makers; requests for chronometers for D. Livingstone and the Oregon expedition; a list of chronometer makers; a paper, in French, by Messrs Delamarche and Ploix on the influence of the magnetism of ships on the rates of chronometers; J Hartnup's 'importance of testing chronometers before they are used at sea'; and notes on the...
Dates:
1849 - 1859
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NS I Chap 4-132 Note, 1869-08-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 45: 167r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1869-08-29
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