Reference number | MC/4/33 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel and the Chairman of the Committee for conducting the British Cooperation in Magnetic researches |
Date | 17 June 1844 |
Description | Forwarding letters from Ceylon regarding a proposal to the governor for the establishment of a magnetic observatory at Columbo. Sabine's letter includes an inventory of instruments to be sent to Ceylon for these purposes.
[The enclosures are present and contain copy letters from Captain Pickering to Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine, dated 20 April 1844, from Captain W.H. Pickering to Dr Robert Templeton, assistant surgeon, dated 13 April 1844, and from Philip Anstruther [colonial secretary] to Dr Robert Templeton dated 19 April 1844. All the copy letters are written on the same paper, labelled within the volume as MC/4/33a.]
[Read at Council on 4 July 1844.] |
Extent | 8p |
Format | Manuscript |
Access status | Open |
Related records in the catalogue | MC/4/32 |
MC/4/31 |
MC/4/34 |
CMP/1/185 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |