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RefNoMS/257/1/2
AltRefNoSa.2
Previous numbersES1/1/2
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Antoine [Thomson] d'Abbadie, Urrugne pres Behobie to Edward Sabine
Date26 June 1856
DescriptionAbbadie recently received Sabine’s paper ‘on some of the results obtained at the British colonial magnetic observatories’ from 1854. Abbadie thanks Sabine for informing him of ‘other startling results’ as well as the ‘lunar period, not decennial in terrestrial magnetism’. Abbadie thanks Sabine for his three volumes of magnetic observations from [Hobart] ‘Hobarton’ and Toronto, but has not yet received the first volumes.

Abbadie updates Sabine on is work in Ethiopian geography. Abbadie wrote to the Athenaeum giving a method of getting the deviation of the vertical [force] in two points of the meridian and in any azimuth, after seeing [Nevil Maskelyne’s] experiment on the earth’s attraction. Though Abbadie’s letter has not been published.

Abbadie intends to build his small observatory next year.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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