Capt. Sabine’s Remarks on Capt. Ross’s Work. — 369 
tion, and which I have to heg you will be pleased to return to 
Mr. Murray when corrected.—And I shall be obliged if you will 
send me as soun as_ possible, and in a state for publication, any 
other observations you may have made during the late voyage, 
relative to the various objects of the Expedition or those branches 
of science in which you were employed, viz. the variation and 
inclination of the magnetic needle, intensity of magnetic force, 
refraction, aurora borealis, and figure of the earth as determined 
by observation on the pendulum, that { may have the pleasure 
of giving them a place in my publication, which is now in a for- 
ward state. Iam, &c., 
“London, 12th February, 1819.” Joun Ross. 
The author’s answer was in substance, * that the reports.on 
these subjects had been sent to the Royal Society at the instance 
of the Admiralty; and that any which were deemed worthy of 
being recorded would be printed, he presumed, in the Philoso- 
phical Transactions (in fact, they were at this time under exami- 
nation of a Committee of the Royal Society); that if the Admi- 
ralty had given the reports to him, and had wished them to form 
a part of his publication, he would readily have completed them 
for that purpose. On receiving this reply Captain Ross returned 
the manuscript which had been sent him, and remarked, that as 
he had not the whole of Captain Sabine’s observations, he could 
not think of publishing any part of them.” 
‘¢Qn the appearance of Captain Ross’s publication I perceived - 
(says the author) that it contained observations which I had ex- 
clusively made, on.yarious subjects, printed not indeed under my 
name, but under that of Mr, James Clark Ross, nephew to Cap- 
tain Ross, a midshipman of the Isabella, I immediately requested 
an interview with Mr. James Ross, and in the presence of the 
officers commanding the Hecla and Griper, the two ships now 
fitting for a new Expedition, and of Mr, Hooper, one of the of- 
ficers of the Hecla, called on him-for the disavowal which follows: 
*€March 28th 1819.—Questions put by Captain Sabine to Mr. 
James C. Ross in presence of Lieutenants Parry and Liddon 
and Mr. Hooper of the Royal Navy, with Mr. James C. Ross’s 
answers, 
**Q. In the Appendix of Captain Ross’s Account of a voyage of 
discoyery are inserted ‘Observatious on the Pendulum,’ with,a 
memorandum stating ‘ that these observations were furnished 
by Mr. James Ross.’ These obseryations being mine, and the 
account of them having been copied from my papers, [| ca!l on 
you to disavow them, and to state how and when you became 
possessed of what has been printed as furnished by you? 
Vol. 53, No, 253. May 1819. Aa A, 
