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RefNoMC/3/129
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Maharajah Ram Rajah Behauder], Trevandrum in Travancore, to the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society
Date30 December 1840
DescriptionGiving an affirmative response to the Society's request for his help in annexing a magnetic department to the Observatory at Trevandrum and establishing corresponding observations there.
[The Maharajah's name is signed in the script of a Dravidian language.]
[Read by Council on 13 May 1841.]
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordCMP/1/146
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2272Compton; Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790 - 1851); 2nd Marquess of Northampton1790 - 1851
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