Correspondence, 26 January 1886-December 1888

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File Box 1886-1888

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Includes materials relating to correspondence between Capt. P. Aldrich (Tonga, Auckland) and W. Wharton (September-December 1888); Cdr. J.E. Coghlan (London) and W. Wharton (12/06/1887); Lieut. A.M. Field (Townsville, Cooktown, Sydney) and W. Wharton (May 1886-October 1888); Cdr. R. Hoskyn (Sydney, Launceston) and W. Wharton (May 1886-April 1888); Lieut. T. Pullen (Sydney) and W. Wharton (December 1886-October 1887).

Topics discussed include: deep-sea specimens; tide gauge; soundings of H.M.S. Egeria in Southern Ocean; staff; condition of instruments returned from Western Australian Survey; meteorological logs; Banks Island tracings; visit to Tasmania; geological specimens obtained from Louisiade Archipelago; future of survey; Survey by H.M.S. Myrmidon of Bass Strait; staff; collision with H.M.S. Tyne; passage through Great Barrier Reef near Cape Grafton; progress of survey; return to England; reef at Cooktown; meteorological log; New Guinea survey; repairs of H.M.S. Lark; survey of Sydney Harbour.

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