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Robert Were Fox fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1834-1836.

Reference:

R3888-0-7-E, MG24-H67

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100259

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Robert Were Fox fonds
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Date(s):

1834-1836.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.4 cm of textual records (16 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of five letters from John Franklin, 1834-1836, discussing Fox's dipping-needle and making arrangements with him for the instrument to be taken by Captain Francis Rawdon Chesney on his expedition to explore the North coast of America and the North West Passage, 1836.

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Fox, Robert Were, 1789-1877

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Fox, Robert Were, 1789-1877 : Robert Were Fox was one of the founders of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1833. His original research concerned internal temperature of the earth and the study of magnetic phenomena. He constructed a dipping-needle of great accuracy.

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General note:

Received in 1974.
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John Franklin, 1834-1836

Captain Francis Rawdon Chesney, 1834-1836

North West Passage (N.W.T.), 1834-1836
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Private

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MG24-H67
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 H 67] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Originals in container 2 have been withdrawn from circulations. Researchers must consult photocopies in container 1

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