Record

RefNoMC/5/130
LevelItem
TitleLetter from James C [Cosmo] Melvill, East India House, to S H [Samuel Hunter] Christie, [Secretary of the Royal Society]
Date1 December 1853
DescriptionForwarding a copy of a letter from Captain Stafford Butterworth Haines of the Indian Navy regarding the results of experiments on changes in the magnetic variation at Aden.

[Enclosure is present in volume, has an extent of 4p, and is labelled MC/5/130a.]
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7015Melvill; Sir; James Cosmo (1792 - 1861)1792 - 1861
NA8168Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician1784 - 1865
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