Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R.N. to Captain Kater, communicating the details of experiments made by him and Mr. Henry Foster, with an invariable pendulum; in  London; at the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, near the equator; at San Blas de California on the N.W. coast of Mexico; and at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. With an appendix, containing the second series of experiments in London, on the return. From the Philosphical transactions.
Hall, Basil,1788-1844.
Kater, Henry,1777-1835.
Hall, Basil,1788-1844,former owner.StEdNL
Veitch, James,1771-1838,former owner.StEdNL
Ross, Sydney,1915-    ,former owner.StEdNL
London : Printed by William Nicol, Cleveland-Row, St. James's,
1823.
Inscribed in ink on the title page "Mr James Veitch, Jedburgh, from Captain Hall, Jany. 1825". Ownership sticker on the front pastedown of "Dr. Sydney Ross, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy New York.".
Pendulum