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Series 21 - Cosmic Ray Records and Analyses, HMAS Wyatt Earp and MV Duntroon
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Date Range1947 - 1948
Quantity15.2 cm, 20 items
ProvenancePhillip Garth Law
Description

Cosmic ray recordings made by P.G. Law during 1947-1948 on voyages on HMAS Wyatt Earp and MV Duntroon, including draft papers and reports, cosmic ray recordings, analyses and correspondence.

ArrangedSequentially numbered files

Inventory Listing

21-1 Wyatt Earp Paper
HMAS Wyatt Earp, Southern Latitude Survey, December 1947-April 1948

Draft paper, "Cosmic Ray Measurements Made During the Cruise of HMAS Wyatt Earp 1947-48", by D.E. Caro, P.G. Law and H.D. Rathgeber.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 1
Date range 20 April 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Diagrams and Drafts
Inventory Identifier 21/001 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-2 (Cosmic Ray Recordings)
HMAS Wyatt Earp, Southern Latitude Survey, December 1947-April 1948

Draft report: first cruise, Adelaide, 13 December 1947, Hobart - Melbourne, 7 January 1948; second cruise, Melbourne, 8 Febuary 1948, Commonwealth Bay - Melbourne, 1 April 1948. Cosmic ray records, second cruise.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 2
Date range 7 January 1948 - 5 April 1948    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data, Drafts, Reports and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/002 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-3 Cosmic Ray Results, Wyatt Earp, First Cruise
HMAS Wyatt Earp, Southern Latitude Survey, December 1947-April 1948

Cosmic ray records, first cruise.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 3
Date range 23 December 1947 - 5 January 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/003 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-4 Wyatt Earp
HMAS Wyatt Earp, Southern Latitude Survey, December 1947-April 1948

Cosmic ray records and shipboard data, second cruise; associated data and correspondence; analysis and graphed results.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 4
Date range February 1948 - March 1948    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Numeric Data, Graphs and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier 21/004 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-5 KURE - Auckland
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Cosmic ray records, 2-6 July; 15-17 July; 23 July-9 August.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 5
Date range 2 July 1948 - 9 August 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/005 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-6 (Cosmic Ray Recordings)
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Cosmic ray records, 7-14 July. Edges of sheets badly charred by fire.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 6
Date range 7 July 1948 - 14 July 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/006 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-7 KURE
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Cosmic ray records, 18-22 July. Edges of sheets badly charred by fire.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 7
Date range 18 July 1948 - 22 July 1948    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/007 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-8 Auckland and Correlations Results
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Cosmic ray records and correlation analyses, 9-14 August. Edges of sheets badly charred by fire.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 8
Date range 9 August 1948 - 14 August 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/008 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-9 Auckland - Sydney
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Cosmic ray records, correlation analyses, and some diurnal variation data, 15-19 August. Edges of sheets badly charred by fire.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 9
Date range 15 August 1948 - 19 August 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/009 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-10 General Data for Japan Results
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Cosmic ray records (a few single days), meteorological and ionospheric data and associated correspondence, all sheets badly charred by fire and some water-damaged.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 10
Date range July 1948 - September 1948    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/010 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-11 Auckland - Sydney
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Complete cosmic ray records, Count 1 (total narrow angle, vertical), and records of pressure (P), temperature (T) and geomagnetic latitude (L).

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 11
Date range 7 July 1948 - 19 August 1948    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/011 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-12 Auckland
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Complete cosmic ray records, Count 2 (hard narrow angle, vertical), and records of pressure (P), temperature (T) and geomagnetic latitude (L).

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 12
Date range 7 July 1948 - 19 August 1948    Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/012 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-13 (Cosmic Ray Recordings)
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Complete cosmic ray records, Count 3 (total wide angle, vertical), and records of pressure (P), temperature (T) and geomagnetic latitude (L).

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 13
Date range 7 July 1948 - 19 August 1948    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/013 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-14 (Cosmic Ray Recordings)
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Complete cosmic ray records, Count S (soft showers).

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 14
Date range 7 July 1948 - 19 August 1948    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/014 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-15 KURE
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Complete cosmic ray records, Count H (hard showers).

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 15
Date range 7 July 1948 - 19 August 1948    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/015 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-16 Japan Cruise General Data
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Correspondence and associated meteorological data; correspondence and associated magnetic K Indices.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 16
Date range 24 August 1948 - 14 December 1948    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Numeric Data and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/016 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-17 (Cosmic Ray Recordings)
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Correlation analyses; log of ship's position and of temperature and pressure; magnetic latitudes; calculations, including harmonic analyses of daily variations.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 17
Date range 1948    Quantity 2.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Numeric Data, Graphs and Lists
Inventory Identifier 21/017 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-18 Japan Cruise Calculations
MV Duntroon, Latitude Survey, Australia - Japan, July-August 1948

Calculations and plots of magnetic latitude dependence of Count 3 (total wide angle, vertical).

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Control 18
Date range July 1948    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Graphs
Inventory Identifier 21/018 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-19 P.G. Law Cosmic Ray Folders

Index, "P.G. Law Cosmic Ray Folders", and reprints of articles: "Cosmic Ray Measurements Made During the Cruise of HMAS Wyatt Earp 1947-48", D.E. Caro, P.G. Law and H.D. Rathgeber, Australian Journal of Scientific Research, series A, vol. 1, no. 3, 1948, pp. 261-74; "Cosmic Ray Measurements Between Japan and Australia", D.E. Caro, P.G. Law and H.D. Rathgeber, Australian Journal of Scientific Research, series A, vol. 2, no. 4, 1949, pp. 493-505.

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 1992    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Photocopied Documents and Indexes
Inventory Identifier 21/019 Box Number 77 Series 21
21-20 Cosmic Ray Correspondence

Correspondence from J.R. Prescott on XXI International Cosmic Ray Conference (Adelaide, 1990), and David Caro on cosmic ray records. Includes index, "P.G. Law Cosmic Ray Folders".

 Creator Phillip Garth Law
Date range 23 January 1990 - 2 July 1992    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Indexes
Inventory Identifier 21/020 Box Number 77 Series 21
Published by the eScholarship Research Centre, August 1999
With support from National Library of Australia and Rotary Club of Balwyn
Listed by Helen Morgan with Oscar Manhal, Gavan McCarthy and Arlie McCarthy
HTML edition Helen Morgan
Updated 5 June 2012
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/lawp/LAWP021.htm

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