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Reference numberMC/3/214
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Colonel Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Samuel Hunter Christie, Secretary of the Royal Society
Date12 April 1842
DescriptionRequesting the returns on magnetic observations sent by the East India Company from the Magnetic Observatories in India. Sabine also requests, if available, any observations from the Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana] observatory.
[Request granted by Council on 14 April 1842.]

[The previous number in this sequence (MC/3/213) is not present.]
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Related records in the catalogueCMP/1/158
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
NA8168Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician1784 - 1865
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