The Literary Diary: or Commonplace book, 1828-1851

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File 26
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Used as a general note book.

Subjects include: On interpolating the rates of chronometers; Meridian distances, Beagle's second voyage; List of chronometers on board Beagle, 1831 and 1837; Abbrieviations used on charts; Preserving fluid used by Mr Goodby at York, 1844; Details of HMS Britannia; Mathematical notes; South American latitudes and longitudes; Table for correcting heights; Variation tables; To find longitude by lunar observation; Meridian distance obtained in Acheron, 1848-1851

At back of volume: Latitudes and longitudes, Beagle, including - Brazil, St Helena; Mauritius, Australia, Van Diemen's Land, Sydney, New Zealand

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