| Reference number | MC/3/61 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from John Backhouse, Foreign Office, to the Marquis of Northampton [President of the Royal Society] |
| Date | 18 December 1839 |
| Description | Relating to the Society's request concerning an observatory in Egypt for the investigation into terrestrial magnetism. Backhouse relays Viscount Palmerston's instruction to the Consul General in Egypt to use officers with the Pasha of Egypt in support of this application.
[Read by Council on 9 January 1840.] |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | MC/3/62 |
| CMP/1/125 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2272 | Compton; Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790 - 1851); 2nd Marquess of Northampton | 1790 - 1851 |
| NA2495 | Temple; Henry John (1784 - 1865); 3rd Viscount Palmerston | 1784 - 1865 |