Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for the purpose, and attached to His Majesty's ship Hecla, in the Year MDCCCXXVII, under the command of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg ; illustrated by plates and charts
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Physical description:
xxii, [2], 229, [1] pages, [7] leaves of plates (1 folded) illustrations, maps 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Arctic regions
Norway
Spitsbergen Island
North Pole
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Regions
Date:
1828
Notes:
"Published by authority of His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral"
Errata: p. [8], 1st page group
SCNHRB copy (39088004610861) has partially obliterated bookplate with seal of the City of New York and red property stamp on t.p
SCNHRB copy bound in diced leather, marbled edges and endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box
SCNHRB copy has blind-embossed stamps throughout of the Columbia College Library New York
SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jul 16 1910 [ms acc no] 213181
Contents:
Abstract of the meterological journal kept during the expedition towards the North Pole between June 25 and August 10, 1827, and on board His Majesty's ship Hecla between May 1 and September 16, 1827 -- Notice respecting the chronometers embarked on board the Hecla and the determination of the longitudes -- Observations on the dip of the magnetic needle -- Observations on the variation of the magnetic needle made on shore or on the ice 1827 -- Lieutenant (now Commander) Foster's account of the observations on the diurnal changes of intensity in the horizontal magnetic needle at Spitzbergen, 1827 -- Temperature and specific gravity of sea-water below the surface, 1827 -- Natural history. Zoology / James Clark Ross. Botanical appendix / Wm. Jackson Hooker. Enumeration of the rocks of Spitzbergen and the neighbouring isles collected by Captain Parry / Robert Jameson
