| RefNo | AP/20/8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished letter, 'Report upon a letter addressed by the Baron de Humboldt to HRH the President of the Royal Society and communicated by HRH to the Council' from S [Samuel] Hunter Christie and G B [George Biddell] Airy to the President of the Royal Society |
| Date | 9 June 1836 |
| Description | Report by the Humboldt Letter Committee on Humboldt's recent letter on terrestial magnetism (AP/20/7), presenting an overview of Humboldt's letter. Christie and Airy recommend that Humboldt's plans for magnetic stations are presented to the government so that observatories can be established. Annotated in pencil throughout.
Subject: Magnetism
Read 9 June 1836.
This report was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Report upon a letter addressed by M. le Baron de Humboldt to his Royal highness the President of the Royal Society, and communicated by his Royal Highness to the council'. |
| Extent | 19p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | Not available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making. |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0269 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/20/7 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |
| NA8168 | Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician | 1784 - 1865 |
| NA7984 | Humboldt; Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 - 1859); naturalist and traveller | 1769 - 1859 |
| NA8338 | Augustus Frederick (1773 - 1843); Duke of Sussex | 1773 - 1843 |