Record

Reference numberMS/257/3/179
Alternative reference numberSa.924
Previous numbersES3/45/924
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Georg Balthasar Neumayer, Frankenthal to Edward Sabine
Date21 August 1866
DescriptionUpdate on Neymayer’s work. Neumayer asks Sabine if he received his ‘report on the inclination at Hobarton’. Discusses the printing of his [observations]. Refers to the [Austo-Prussian War] which ‘disturbed everything in’ their ‘poor country’. Remarks on Sabine’s request to have Neumayer’s barometrical observations. Refers to the Melbourne observations, the ‘state of the atmosphere’, and ‘radiation according to Professor [John] Tyndall’s theory’.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA471Neumayer; Georg Balthasar von (1826 - 1909)1826 - 1909
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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