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RefNoAP/31/6/1
LevelItem
TitleLetter, regarding the survey of the East Indian Archipelago from Charles Morgan Elliot to Colonel [Edward] Sabine
CreatorElliot; Charles Morgan (1815-1852); British naval officer; diplomat; colonial administrator
Date6 August 1849
DescriptionElliot describes the process of taking magnetic observations, listing the locations where he undertook the observations and the equipment used in the process.

Subject: Hydrology / Meteorology

Written by Elliot in Madras [Chennai, India].

This letter was published in full in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A Letter from Captain C. M. Elliot, Madras Engineers, to Lieut.-Col. Sabine, For. Sec. R.S., transmitted through the Court of Directors of the East India Company. Communicated by Lieut.- Col. Sabine.'
Extent8p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0214
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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