Record

RefNoMC/3/67
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Sir Charles] Trevelyan, [Assistant Secretary to] Treasury Chambers, to the Marquis of Northampton [President of the Royal Society]
Date23 January 1840
DescriptionRelating to an extract from the Society Council minutes, forwarded to the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, regarding the need for specific instruments for magnetic observations in the expedition to the coasts and rivers of Western Africa.
[Read by Council on 6 February 1840.]
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordCMP/1/127
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2272Compton; Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790 - 1851); 2nd Marquess of Northampton1790 - 1851
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