posted on 2023-11-22, 11:35authored byThomas Dobson
The general nature of the gales that prevail on the south coast of Australia, Bass's Straits, and on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land was correctly described by Flinders forty years ago. This description is the more valuable and trustworthy, inasmuch as Flinders was ignorant of the modern theory of rotatory storms.
History
Publication title
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Volume
2
Issue
3
Pagination
394-423
ISSN
0080-4703
Rights statement
In 1843 the Horticultural and Botanical Society of Van Diemen's Land was founded and became the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science in 1844. In 1855 its name changed to the Royal Society of Tasmania for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science. In 1911 the name was shortened to The Royal Society of Tasmania..