| RefNo | MC/4/33 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel and the Chairman of the Committee for conducting the British Cooperation in Magnetic researches |
| Date | 17 June 1844 |
| Description | Forwarding letters from Ceylon regarding a proposal to the governor for the establishment of a magnetic observatory at Columbo. Sabine's letter includes an inventory of instruments to be sent to Ceylon for these purposes.
[The enclosures are present and contain copy letters from Captain Pickering to Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine, dated 20 April 1844, from Captain W.H. Pickering to Dr Robert Templeton, assistant surgeon, dated 13 April 1844, and from Philip Anstruther [colonial secretary] to Dr Robert Templeton dated 19 April 1844. All the copy letters are written on the same paper, labelled within the volume as MC/4/33a.]
[Read at Council on 4 July 1844.] |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Place origin | Woolwich, London |
| Origin coordinates | 51.488, 0.063 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/4/32 |
| MC/4/31 |
| MC/4/34 |
| CMP/1/185 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |