Osborn Icebound in the Arctic - Recording Daylight
Title: Remarks upon the Amount of Light Experienced in
high Northern Latitudes during the absence of the Sun.
Author: Sherard Osborn
Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society, 1858
Notes & Condition:
Foremost documentation of the frequency, duration and intensity of daylight
in the Arctic, during the season of prolonged darkness, observed by Captain
Sherard Osborn while on the Belcher Expedition. Comparative data charts and
a line graph illustrate observations taken from 2 November 1853 to 27 January 1854, while the Pioneer was trapped in the ice at Wellington Channel, to observations
taken at Northumberland Inlet in the previous year.
Narrative is 5 pages, plus a folding diagram. These are the original
pages and diagram printed in 1858, in excellent condition,
attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.


