Printed material by Dr. Richard King

Printed material by Dr. Richard King, British Arctic traveller and advocate of lightweight equipment and Inuit methods, presented to McCormick. Item no.16: "On the Fish River of the Polar Sea", by Richard King: offprint from the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 1844. Items nos.17-18: letters from Richard King to Sir John Barrow, proposing plans for Arctic exploration: offprints from unspecified journal. 1845.

1844-1845

Described in: typescript finding aids, supplementary to the Library's published catalogues and written by Richard Aspin, Christopher Hilton, Keith Moore and Richard Palmer.