BIB_ID
81411
Accession number
MA 4164
Creator
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Display Date
1872 April 18.
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.8 x 11.8 cm
Notes
Written on stationery with a blind embossed seal and the following address: "University of London, / Burlington Gardens, W."
In the letterhead, the century has been pre-printed, and Carpenter has filled out the rest of the date by hand.
In the letterhead, the century has been pre-printed, and Carpenter has filled out the rest of the date by hand.
Provenance
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, December 10, 1981.
Summary
Agreeing to take part in a discussion of arctic exploration at the Geographical Society; setting forth his ideas on the movement of warmer waters into the polar regions; writing that he has been carefully studying the "recent results of the German and Russian Expeditions contained in [Augustus Heinrich] Petermann's 'Mittheilungen'"; taking issue with Petermann on the subject of currents: "And if Petermann and his German collaborateurs could emancipate themselves from the old error which they still partake of the uniform deep sea temperature of 39° as that of the greatest density of water, they would see the matter in the same light, for Petermann distinctly says that the Gulf Stream Proper is only a tributary to this great general movement."
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