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RefNoMC/4/31
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to Sir John Herschel
Date11 June 1844
DescriptionRegarding the magnetic observations taken during the Antarctic Expedition and the way in which they are and could be published. Sabine requests Herschel to present his proposal to the Committee of Physics and later to the President of the Society, [the Marquis of Northampton], and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

[The letter is enclosed with MC/4/32 within the volume.]

[Read at Council on 13 June 1844.]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/4/32
MC/4/33
MC/4/34
CMP/1/184
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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