i 
: 
370 ' Notices respecting New Books. 
<¢ A. I copied them from your papers during the voyage, by 
your permission. : 
‘© Q. In the Appendix is also given ‘ A Table showing the 
magnetic dip and intensity of the magnetic force, furnished by 
Mr. James Ross, who with Captain Sabine was employed parti-. 
cularly to make these observations.’ I call on you, as an officer . 
and as a gentleman, to state whether any of the observations 
contained in that table were made by you; whether you ever 
made any observations on the dip or force ; and how and.when 
you became possessed of the ‘ Table’ printed by Captain Ross? 
*©A,. I never did make any observations on the magnetic dip 
or force, and I copied that table from your papers by your per- 
mission during the voyage. ; 
«°Q. Did you not when at or near Shetland, on our return 
home, copy my Meteorological register for Captain Ross, at his 
request and by my permission ; being the same register that is 
engraved in plates in Captain Ross’s book, and which was the 
only one so kept in the Isabelli? 
“© A. Yes, I did. ’ 
‘¢ (Signed) Epwarp SaBInNz. 
James CLarK Ross. 
“In presence of William Edward Parry. 
Matthew Liddon, and 
William Hooper.” 
The author pays a just tribute to Mr. James Ross for his manly 
and honourable disavowal of the use which had been made of his 
name. ‘I have only to add,” he continues, ‘* concerning the 
magnetic observations, that they are incomplete, imperfect, and 
printed incorrectly ; that those on the pendulum are useless in 
their present state, as every person who understands the subject 
will perceive. .1 have however no reason to be ashamed of the’ 
manner in which even my rough memoranda on the spot were 
made; a state in which I little expected they would appear be- 
fore the public. I have also to appropriate and to acknowledge 
the compliment which Captain Ross has paid to the care and at- 
tention with which the meteorological tables, which have been 
published by him, were kept. 
« Amongst the papers which were placed in Capt. Ross’s hands 
on our arrival in England, to be transmitted by him to the Ad- 
miralty, was one on the language of the Esquimaux who reside 
to the north of the latitude of 76°. When my journal was re- 
turned from the Admiralty, I noticed the absence of this paper. 
But as it was ona subject on which I was not officially employed, 
aud as I had retained a copy of it, I did not give trouble by re- 
presenting that it was missing; but I had it in view, when I 
wrote 
—— 
OA ed ee gma ——s Te ee 
