Record

RefNoMC/7/291
LevelItem
TitleLetter from J [James] Emerson Tennent, Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society
Date9 January 1866
DescriptionForwarding a copy dispatch and its enclosures from the Governor of Ceylon [Sri Lanka] regarding the practicability of using electric light in oyster bed fishing there.

[Enclosures are present with a total extent of 15p over nine papers. They include: a dispatch from Hercules Robinson to Edward Cardwell [MC/7/291a], a letter to the Colonial Secretary [MC/7/291b], a handwritten extract from the Manchester Times on fishing by electric light [MC/7/291c-f], and a letter from Holdsworth to the Colonial Secretary [MC/7/291g-h].]
Extent17p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/7/297
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1670Tennent; Sir; James Emerson (1804 - 1869)1804 - 1869
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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