Record

RefNoMC/9/332
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Pieter Adrian] Bergsma, Director of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory of Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia], to Professor William [Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society
Date17 February 1872
DescriptionSending the first volume of observations made at the Batavia observatory for distribution among institutions in England. The last two pages, on a separate paper labelled MC/9/332a, contain a list of institutions and individuals intended as recipients.

[Place name: modern day Jakarta, Indonesia]
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialRCN: 33525
RelatedRecordMC/11/339
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