Record

RefNoMC/3/145
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Lord [Granville George] Leveson-Gower, Foreign Office, to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society]
Date11 March 1841
DescriptionRegarding the proposed establishment of a magnetic observatory at Hammerfest and the British government's correspondence with Norway and the Swedish government.
[Enclosures are present, have a total extent of 7p and are labelled within the volume as MC/3/145a-145c. They include letters from Thomas Cartwright to Viscount Palmerston, as well as a 'note verbale' from the Swedish monarch regarding the establishment of an observatory. The latter is in French, and has an extent of five pages, with the last being on a separate sheet, labelled MC/3/145c.]
[Read by Council on 13 May 1841.]
LanguageEnglish
French
Extent9p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordCMP/1/146
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA948Leveson-Gower; Granville George (1815 - 1891); 2nd Earl Granville1815 - 1891
NA2272Compton; Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790 - 1851); 2nd Marquess of Northampton1790 - 1851
NA2495Temple; Henry John (1784 - 1865); 3rd Viscount Palmerston1784 - 1865
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